Sound Devices

L.F.2.5.2 Identify, explain, and analyze the structure of poems and sound devices

Assonance, alliteration, consonance, onomatopoeia, epistrophe, rhyme, end

rhyme, slant rhyme, internal rhyme, cacophony, euphony

Sound Devices

Elements of literature and poetry that emphasize sound.

Euphony- pleasantness in sound

Cacophony- harshness in sound

Onomatopoeia

the creation of words that imitate natural sounds

Ex. buzz, hiss

Epistrophe

Repetition of a word or a phrase at the end of successive, phrases, clauses, or sentences

Ex. “…of the people, by the people, for the people”

Assonance

The repetition of vowel sounds in words that are placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines.

These should be in sounds that are accented, or stressed, rather than in vowel sounds that are unaccented.

He’s a bruisin’ loser.

Peter and Andrew patted the pony at Ascot.

Assonance examplesAnd in the air the fireflies

Our only light in paradise

We'll show the world they were wrong

And teach them all to sing along -

some vOdka that'll jumpstart my heart quicker then a shOck when I get shOcked at the hOspital by the dOctor when I'm not coOperating when I'm rOcking the table while he's Operating -eminem

Alliteration

The repetition of the initial consonant sounds in neighboring words.

Peter and Andrew patted the pony at Ascot

BETTER BE A BETTER BOY before you bother

betting that you'll bring her back home again.

Try to treat her like you treat a tender lady.

Tell her truthfully that you'll make amends.

She'll be upset for a while.

But you can win with the smile. -Mick Terry

ConsonanceThe repetition of the same consonant sound in neighboring words

The consonant sound is not just in the beginning but in the beginning and middle or in the middle and middle or in the middle and end or in the beginning and middle and middle and end

"Rap rejects my tape deck,

ejects projectile

Whether Jew or gentile

I rank top percentile." -"Zealots" the Fugees

You Try

Cause with the lyrics I'll be aiming it right

I won't stop till my name's in lights

At stadium heights with Damien Rice

On red carpets, now I'm on Arabian Nights

Because I'm young and all my brothers gonna give me advice

Long nighter, short height and I gone hyper

Never be anything but a singer-songwriter

The game's over but now I'm on a new level

Watch how I step on the track without a loop pedal

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AlliterationAssonance

Consonance

Can you find...alliteration,

assonance, consonance, end rhyme, and slant

rhyme?

Can you find...alliteration,

assonance, consonance, end rhyme, and slant

rhyme?

I love it when I tell ‘em shove itCause it wasn’t thatLong agoWhen Marshall satFlustered, lack-lusteredCause he couldn’t cutMustardMuster upNothinBrain fuzzyCause he’s buzzingWoke up from that buzz and now you wonderWhy he does it how he does itWasn’t cause he hadBuzzards circlin ‘round his headWaitin’ for him to drop dead, was it?

Can’t see me through my tints (nah ah)I’m riding real slow (slow motion)In my wet paint dripping shining like my 24’s (umbrella)I don’t got 24’s (no oh)But I’m on those VoguesThat’s those big white walls, round them hundred spokesOld school like Old English in that brown paper bagI’m rolling in that same whip that my granddad hadHello, haters, damn y’all mad30k on the Caddy, now how backpack rap is that?I got that off-black Cadillac, midnight driveI got that gas pedal, leaned back, taking my timeI’m rollin’ out, roof off, letting in skyI shine, the city never looked so bright

Can’t see me through my tints (nah ah)I’m riding real slow (slow motion)In my wet paint dripping shining like my 24’s (umbrella)I don’t got 24’s (no oh)But I’m on those VoguesThat’s those big white walls, round them hundred spokesOld school like Old English in that brown paper bagI’m rolling in that same whip that my granddad hadHello, haters, damn y’all mad30k on the Caddy, now how backpack rap is that?I got that off-black Cadillac, midnight driveI got that gas pedal, leaned back, taking my timeI’m rollin’ out, roof off, letting in skyI shine, the city never looked so bright

Can you find...alliteration,

assonance, consonance, end rhyme, and slant

rhyme?

Can you find...alliteration,

assonance, consonance, end rhyme, and slant

rhyme?