SOUND DEVICES

Poetry Collection 1 Pages 580-587

Friday, April 1, 2011

OBJECTIVES Today students will do the following:

Identify sound devices in poetry

SOUND DEVICES Here are three common sound devices:

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

Repetition

ONOMATOPOEIA The use of words whose sounds suggest

their meanings.

Crash! Bang!

Grrrrrrrrrrr!

ALLITERATION

maggie and milly and molly and may (repetition of the m sound)

Tongue Twisters! She sells seashells by the seashore…Peter Piper picked a pail of pickled

peppers…

REPETITION

To the swinging and the ringing of the bells, bells, bells, of the bells, bells, bells.

CONNECTING TO LITERATURE

In a few sentences, describe the things that make you unique. Try to use some of the following words:

-attitude-contribute-dedicate-embody-react

She Silverstein began writing at an early age before he studied any of the great poets.

“I was so lucky that I didn’t have Anyone to copy.”

Let’s read “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage

Out” together.

Pay attention to the sound devices we discussed in class.

Which sound device is being used in this line?

CLOSURE Which sound device can be seen most

clearly in tongue twisters?