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Exploring Sound Devices in Poetry

This informative article discusses various sound devices used in poetry, including alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, rhyme, and rhyme scheme. Learn how these devices enhance the auditory experience of poems and add depth to their meaning.

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Exploring Sound Devices in Poetry

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  1. Poetry Unit Sound Devices

  2. Alliteration • The repetition of the initial consonant sounds of words • Ex: Luckily, Lucy loved licorice and lacked laryngitis.

  3. Assonance • The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words • Remember, each vowel makes 2 sounds! • Ex: The child cried silently. Red rover, red rover, will Joe come over? Jane gave me her paper late.

  4. Consonance • The repetition of consonant sounds at the end of stressed syllables  prove/love World’s strand, sway of the sea; Lordof living and dead

  5. Onomatopoeia • Words whose sound imitates its meaning • Ex: Buzz Hiss Moo Thud

  6. Rhyme • The repetition of sounds at the ends of words Ex: Cat and Rat

  7. Eye Rhyme • A similarity in spelling of words that do not sound alike and are pronounced differently • Ex: Watch/Hatch, Said/Paid, Stranger/Anger, Have/Save

  8. End Rhyme • The rhyming of words at the end of lines • Ex: I saw a bird up in a tree It sang a lovely song for me

  9. Internal Rhyme • The rhyming of words within a line of poetry • Ex: The sound when she hit the ground was deafening.

  10. Rhyme Scheme • The regular pattern of end rhymes in a poem or stanza. You assign one letter of the alphabet to each rhyming sound. Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, A The flying cloud, the frosty light: B The year is dying in the night; B Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. A

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