Poetic Sound Devices

Draw

Create a drawing that brings this statement to life:

"Poetry without music is like a rainbow without colors—it loses its magic."

Poetry withers and dies out when it leaves music, or at least imagined music, too far behind it. Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.”

-Ezra Pound

Categorize

Options (17)

Tree

Sea

Bee

Knee

Peter

Piper

Picked

Pepper

Wind

Kind

Round

life

sigh

try

time

bright

blend

Place each word in the category that fits best.

Rhyme

Similar Beginning Sounds

Similar End Sounds

Similar Vowel Sounds

Purpose of Sound Devices

The author’s goal is to use a certain sound—harsh or pleasing—to make the poem’s meaning stand out.

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Multiple Choice

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall…

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme

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Fill in the Blanks

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Multiple Choice

Alliteration are repeated sounds found at the end of words.

• True

• False

Multiple Select

Read these lines from, "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe.

And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain

thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;

Select 2 examples of alliteration from this excerpt.

• silken, sad

• thrilled, filled

• uncertain, curtain

• filled, fantastic, felt

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Multiple Select

Read the following lines from "The Cold Wind Blows"

Who knows why the cold wind blows,

or where it goes, or what it knows

Select three words from this poem that have the same vowel sound.

• who

• knows

• blows

• goes

• or

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Multiple Select

Read this line of poetry:

Select four words that have the same consonant sound within or at the end of the words.

• thrusts

• fists

• still

• insists

• ghosts

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Multiple Select

Select words below that are examples of onomatopoeia.

• squeal

• drip

• splish

• splash

• rain