Poetic Devices

The Sounds of Poetry

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• Please begin working on your Bell Ringer complete Monday-Wednesday!

• Today we will be working in groups on Poetic Devices and completing a lesson Read Theory!

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Onomatopoeia

When a word’s pronunciation imitates its sound.

Examples

Buzz Fizz Woof

Hiss Clink Boom

Beep Vroom Zip

Repetition

Repeating a word or words for effect.

Example

When you, my Dear, are away, away, How wearily goes the creeping day.

Rhythm

When words are arranged in such a way that they make a pattern or beat.

Example

There once was a girl from Chicago

Who dyed her hair pink in the bathtub

I own a solace shut within my heart,

A garden full of many a quaint delight

Hint: hum the words instead of saying them.

Rhyme

When words have the same end sound.

Happens at the beginning, end, or middle of lines.

Examples

Where

Fair

Air

Bear

Glare

Alliteration

When the first sounds in words repeat.

Example

Peter Piper picked a pickled pepper.

Slim-pinioned swallows sweep and pass

Consonance

When consonants repeat in the middle or end of words.

Creates a near rhyme sound

Examples

Fixed in onyx A pillar of valor

The calm lamb Fish in a mesh net

Practice Quiz

I’ll put some lines of poetry on the screen.

Write down which techniques are used:

Alliteration, consonance, rhythm, rhyme, and onomatopoeia.

Some poems use more than one technique.

1

Oh! To be a wave

Splintering on the sand,

Drawing back, but leaving

Lingeringly the land.

2

Drip--hiss--drip--hiss– fall the raindrops

on the oaken log which burns, and steams,

and smokes the ceiling beams.

Drip--hiss--the rain never stops.

3

A trumpet-vine covered an arbourWith the red and gold of its blossoms.Red and gold like the brass notes of Trumpets.

4

I passed through the gates of the city,The streets were strange and still,

Through the doors of the open churchesThe organs were moaning shrill.

5

Upon the enchanted ladder of his rhymes,Round after round and patientlyThe poet ever upward climbs.

Answers

1. Rhythm, rhyme, consonance, alliteration.

2. Onomatopoeia, consonance, repetition, rhyme

3. Alliteration, consonance, repetition

4. Rhythm, rhyme, alliteration

5. Repetition, rhyme, light alliteration