Poetic Sound Devices

Poetic Conventions: Sound Devices

Rhyme Scheme

• A pattern of rhymes that typically appear at the ends of lines of a poem

• A indicates lines 1 and 3 rhyme

• B indicates lines 2 and 4 rhyme

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Example

Slant Rhyme

• words that have similar, but not identical, sounds.

• "worm" and "swarm"

• Words or language structures are repeated to emphasize an important idea.

Repetition

Alliteration

• the repetition of an initial (beginning) vowel or consonant sound in nearby words

• "And then we slept so soundly on the sands close by the sea"

• slept, so, soundly, sands, sea

Consonance

• The repetition of consonant sounds with different vowel sounds

• May appear at the middle or end of the word

• It is the SOUNDS that count

• the same letter may have different sounds: wise and base

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Which words rhyme? Click all correct words.

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Whose woods these are I think I know. ​

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His house is in the village though. ​

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He will not see me stopping here ​

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To watch his woods fill up with snow ​

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What is the example of consonance in the first line? Write down the words

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Which words in the fourth line are examples of alliteration?

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Identify the rhyme scheme:

A little while, a little while, ​ ​

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The weary task is put away, ​ ​

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And I can sing and I can smile, ​ ​

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Alike, while I have holiday. … ​ ​

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Identify the rhyme scheme:

That was the scene, I knew it well; ​

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I knew the turfy pathway’s sweep ​

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That, winding o’er each billowing swell,​

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Marked out the tracks of wandering sheep. …​

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Fill in the Blanks

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Where are the examples of consonance in the last line?