Sound Devices

1. Sound Devices

2. SOUND DEVICES • There are 5 sound devices. • Alliteration • Assonance • Consonance • Onomatopoeia • Rhyme

4. ASSONANCE is the repetition of vowel sounds in a phrase or sentence. Example: "It beats . . . as it sweeps . . . as it cleans!“ - slogan for Hoover vacuum cleaners

5. CONSONANCE is the repetition of consonant sounds in a phrase or sentence at the middle or end of words. Example: pitter, patter

7. RHYME is the similarities of sounds, usually at the end of lines of poems. • Example: • A BAD CASE OF SNEEZES - by Bruce Lansky • Last night I had the sneezes.I was really very ill.My mother called the doctorwho prescribed a purple pill. • At eight o’clock I went to bed.My mom turned out the light.I used up one whole box of Kleenexsneezing through the night.

8. GUIDED PRACTICE • We will read some examples of sounds devices and determine which one it is.

9. Practice #1 The LambWilliam BlakeLittle lamb, who made thee?Dost thou know who made thee,Gave thee life, and bade thee feedBy the stream and o’er the mead;Gave thee clothing of delight,Softest clothing, woolly, bright;Gave thee such a tender voice,Making all the vales rejoice?Little lamb, who made thee?Dost thou know who made thee?

10. Practice #1--RHYME The LambWilliam BlakeLittle lamb, who made thee?Dost thou know who made thee,Gave thee life, and bade thee feedBy the stream and o’er the mead;Gave thee clothing of delight,Softest clothing, woolly, bright;Gave thee such a tender voice,Making all the vales rejoice?Little lamb, who made thee?Dost thou know who made thee?

11. Practice #2 The large dog said, “Bow-wow!”

12. Practice #2- ONOMATEOPOEIA The large dog said,“Bow-wow!”

13. Practice #3 She ate seven sandwiches on a sunny Sunday last year.

14. Practice #3--ALLITERATION She ate seven sandwiches on a sunny Sunday last year.

15. Practice #4 Try to light the fire.

16. Practice #4—ASSONANCE Try to light the fire.

17. Practice #5 • “Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.”

18. Practice #5—CONSONANCE • “Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.”

19. GROUP WORK

20. “A skunk sat on a stump. The stump thought the skunk stunk. The skunk thought the stump stunk. What stunk, the skunk or the stump?”

21. Alliteration Repeating s at the beginning of words

22. The swamp frogs croaked in unison.

23. Onomatopoeia “croaked”

24. The TigerWilliam BlakeTiger, Tiger. burning bright,In the forests of the night;What immortal hand or eye.Could frame thy fearful symmetry?In what distant deeps or skies.Burnt the fire of thine eyes?On what wings dare he aspire?What the hand, dare seize the fire?

25. Rhyme Last words rhyme

26. "Hear the Mellow Wedding Bells" by Edgar Allen Poe

27. Assonance Repeating e

28. The flag flapped in wind.

29. Onomatopoeia “flapped” Or Alliteration repeating f

30. Shelley sells shells by the seashore.

31. Alliteration repeating s or Consonance Repeating ll

32. The ship has sailed off the shore.

33. Alliteration repeating s

34. The First Tooth • ~Charles and Mary Lamb • Through the house what busy joy,Just because the infant boyHas a tiny tooth to show!I have got a double row,All as white, and all as small;Yet no one cares for mine at all.He can say but half a word,Yet that single sound's preferredTo all the words that I can sayIn the longest summer day.He cannot walk, yet if he putWith mimic motion out his foot,As if he thought he were advancing,It's prized more than my best dancing.

35. Rhyme Last words rhyme

36. Silence your cell phone so that it does not ringduring the movie.

37. Onomatopoeia “ring”

38. Mammals named Sam are clammy.

39. Consonance repeating m