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Term Tuesday

Delve into the poetic device of consonance, the repetition of ending consonant sounds, with examples and its purpose of drawing attention to sound and creating unique effects. Learn about slant rhyme and create your own examples.

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Term Tuesday

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  1. Term Tuesday A Discussion of literary terms

  2. Consonance • a sound device in poetry • Repetition of ending consonant sounds • Slant rhyme is consonance that appears at the end of lines

  3. Examples: • All of these words end with the same consonant • (Notice that they do not rhyme) • Meat, sat, write, coot

  4. Purpose • repeated sounds draw attention to the sound • repeated s’s make a hissing or wind sound

  5. Literary Example Weave a circle round him thrice,And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed,And drunk the milk of Paradise. From Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”

  6. Example of Slant Rhyme • The difference between DespairAnd Fear - is like the OneBetween the instant of a Wreck -And when the Wreck has been -by Emily Dickinson

  7. Create your own • luck • spam • frog

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