Read and analyze the sound devices used in the sentences (onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance)
1. The early bird catches the worm.
2. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
3. Go and mow the lawn.
4. The cows in the pasture mooed loudly.
5. The doors in the old house creaked as the wind blew through the broken windows.
1. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood?
2. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper.
3. The light of a fire is a sight.
4. Sizzle! Sizzle! The water sizzles above the fire.
5. From somewhere far beyond, the flag of fate's caprice unfurled
6. No bubble! No trouble!.
7. Mother was awakened by the loud clanging of the bells of the fire truck that thundered along the street.(
8. I love to ride a boat at night.
9. Oh, the bells, the bells, bells, bells.
10. What a tale of terror tells of despair.
11 As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
12. Vroom, vroom, vroom, shouts the car as it travels the highway.
Meaning Example
Feature of Poem
All at once, everybody shouted,
The cow said “mooh, mooh, mooh”
repeated vowel sounds in a line or
ALLITERATION The snake said “hiss, hiss, hiss” The frog
lines of poetry
said “kokak, kokak, kokak” And they were
very happy.
exaggeration or
ASSONANCE overstatement not intended to be His mind is as clear as mud
taken literally Her heart is so soft as concrete
Bashful Mimosa
--- Its tiny-green leaves move as I touch them
repetition of consonant sounds at gently
CONSONANCE the beginning of the words in lines Seemingly shy to a newly-met stranger
of poetry Fold themselves quickly and thereafter, sleep
(excerpt from “The Actuality of Life”
by Denn Marc P. Alayon)
“My beard grows down to my toes,
use of expression which means the I never wears no clothes,
exact opposite; the I wraps my hair
ONOMATOPEIA
words used suggest the opposite of Around my bare,
their literal meaning And down the road I goes.”
(“My Beard by Shel Silverstein)
words sound alike because they
PERSONIFICATION share the same middle or ending I greet everybody, take a seat, and eat
consonant sounds And prepare to meet them in a suite
giving human qualities or attributes Should Shylock come ashore rest assured
IRONY to non-living objects, abstract ideas he would surely shinely in showing his short
or qualities shirt
How it swells! How it dwells!
words that imitate the sound they
On the future! how it tells
HYPERBOLE are naming or sounds that imitate
Of the rapture that impels
another sound
(excerpt from “The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe)
ALLITERATION ASSONANCE CONSONANCE
desperate desire desperate desire higher, higher, higher
Now -- now to sit or never clang and clash bells, bells, bells
bells, bells, bells What a horror they outpour On and roar!
the bosom of What a horror they outpour
tale their terror tells
clang and clash
Onomatopoeia whoosh, passing breeze
Alliteration splish-splash downhill trilling, melodic thrill flags flutter
and flap
Assonance trilling, melodic thrill flags flutter and flap
Consonance splish-splash downhill frog croaks, bird whistles
What’s the Sound? What’s the Figure?
__________ 1. A wicked whisper came and changed my life.
__________ 2. The fire station burned down last night.
__________ 3. The leaves danced in the wind on the cold October afternoon.
__________ 4. Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle sifter, thrust three thousand
thistles through the thick of his thumb.
__________ 5. Her brain is the size of a pea.
__________ 6. In my dream, I was somewhere and I saw the cutler, antler, battler.
__________ 7. The house of my friend is hard to reach but when I arrived, I enjoy the
nearby beach.
__________ 8. The homeless survived in their cardboard palaces.
__________ 9. “Woosh, woosh” of the howling wind can be heard in darkness.
__________10. I’m starving! I can devour hundred tons of sandwiches and French fries any time.
