POETRY UNIT
Sound Devices
Alliteration
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The repetition of the initial consonant sounds of
words
Ex: Luckily, Lucy loved licorice and lacked
laryngitis.
Assonance
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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.
Consonance
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The repetition of consonant sounds at the end of
stressed syllables  prove/love
World’s strand, sway of the sea;
Lord of living and dead
Onomatopoeia
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Words whose sound
imitates its meaning
Ex: Buzz
Hiss
Moo
Thud
Rhyme
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The repetition of
sounds at the ends of
words
Ex: Cat and Rat
Eye Rhyme
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A similarity in spelling of words that do not sound
alike and are pronounced differently
Ex: Watch/Hatch, Said/Paid, Stranger/Anger,
Have/Save
End Rhyme
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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
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Internal Rhyme
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The rhyming of words within a line of poetry
Ex:
The sound when she hit the ground was deafening.
Rhyme Scheme
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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,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
A
B
B
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
A