sound devices and figurative language

The repetition of CONSONANT sounds at the BEGINNINGS of words.

• alliteration

• repetition

What is alliteration?

• The repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in a series of words

• the repetition of the first consonant sounds in a series of words

Big, bad Bernie Bean-Toes ate two banana bunches

• alliteration

• repetition

Chilly chicken children shivered with goosebumps

• alliteration

• repetition

Slippery, smooth silk slipped through Sarah's slender fingers

• alliteration

• repetition

REPETITION is the repeating of a sound, word, phrase in a given literary work.

• True

• False

Sound devices can ....

• make the poem meaningful.

• create rhythm and make the poem easy to be memorized.

Alliteration is...

• When words in a phrase have

  the same starting consonants.

• When words in a phrase have the same vowel sounds.

Identify the sound devices used in the sentence.

"And miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep."

• alliteration

• repetition

Identify the sound devices used in the passage.

"A horse is a horse, of course, of course,

And no one can talk to a horse of course,

That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. Ed."

• repetition

• alliteration