Transcript Poetic devices ppt

Poetic Devices
The Sounds of Poetry
Onomatopoeia
Definition: When a word’s pronunciation
imitates its sound.
Purpose: Used to create a vivid effect of
sound.
Examples
Buzz
Hiss
Beep
Fizz
Clink
Vroom
Woof
Boom
Zip
Repetition
Definition: Repeating a word or words.
Purpose: Used for effect.
Example
When you, my Dear, are away, away,
How wearily goes the creeping day.
Rhythm
Definition: When words are arranged in such a way
that they make a pattern or beat.
Purpose: Creates a pattern and serves as the
backdrop for ideas and imagery.
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
Definition: When words have the same end
sound. Happens at the beginning, end, or middle
of lines.
Purpose: Used to create a pattern/give a poem
structure and a sense of musicality.
Examples
Where
Air
Glare
Fair
Bear
Alliteration
Definition: When the first sounds in words
repeat.
Purpose: Used for emphasis.
Example
Peter Piper picked a pickled pepper.
Slim-pinioned swallows sweep and pass
Consonance
Definition: When consonants repeat in the middle
or end of words. Creates a near rhyme sound.
Purpose: Used to enhance musical effect and to
establish a mood.
Examples
Fixed in onyx
The calm lamb
A pillar of valor
Fish in a mesh net
Assonance
Definition: When vowel sounds repeat
within words that are close together.
Purpose: Used to enhance musical effect
and to establish a mood.
Examples
• You took the blue shoes last Tuesday (long
vowel sound)
• Men sell the wedding bells (short vowel sound)
Practice Quiz
I’ll put some lines of poetry on the board.
Write down which techniques are used:
A. Alliteration
B. Assonance
C. Rhyme
D. Consonance
E. Rhythm
F. Onomatopoeia.
Refer to the underlined portions when
answering.
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
I passed through the gates of the city,
The streets were strange and still,
Through the doors of the open churches
The organs were moaning shrill.
4
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep
5
How they clang, and clash, and roar!
6
By the sinking or the swelling in the
anger of the bells
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Rhythm, rhyme, consonance, alliteration.
Onomatopoeia, consonance, repetition, rhyme
Rhythm, rhyme, alliteration
Rhyme, repetition, alliteration
Onomatopoeia, alliteration
Onomatopoeia, rhyme, alliteration,
consonance