Sound devices
Alliteration:
Alliteration is the repeated use of a sound (a consonant) at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
A good example of the use of alliteration in the media comes from the English newspaper,The Sun, following England's 0-0 draw against Algeria in the 2010 Fifa World Cup:
Assonance:
Assonance is the rhyming of vowel sounds within two or more words that are situated close to each other.
SOLDIER FREDDY
By Spike Milligan
Soldier Freddy
was never ready,
But! Soldier Neddy,
unlike freddy
Was always ready
and steady,
Onomatopoeia:
Onomatopoeia is the use of words to recreate the sounds they describe:
Rhythm is the musical quality of poetry. It is created in three ways:
Through rhyming:
Rhyme:
Most rhyme schemes are described using letters that correspond to sets of rhymes, so if the 1st, 2nd and 4th lines of a quatrain rhyme with each other and the 3rd line does not rhyme, the quatrain is said to have an a-a-b-a rhyme scheme.
Poems that don't have a fixed rhyme scheme or meter (beats per line) are called "free verse".
Alliteration:
Alliteration is the repeated use of a sound (a consonant) at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
A good example of the use of alliteration in the media comes from the English newspaper,The Sun, following England's 0-0 draw against Algeria in the 2010 Fifa World Cup:
- "Drab, dreary, depressing, disjointed, and at times desperate and, overall, dull as ditchwater. Thanks England. No wonder you were booed off the pitch by your own fans last night."
Assonance:
Assonance is the rhyming of vowel sounds within two or more words that are situated close to each other.
SOLDIER FREDDY
By Spike Milligan
Soldier Freddy
was never ready,
But! Soldier Neddy,
unlike freddy
Was always ready
and steady,
Onomatopoeia:
Onomatopoeia is the use of words to recreate the sounds they describe:
- Sizzle
- Squelch
- Woof
Rhythm is the musical quality of poetry. It is created in three ways:
Through rhyming:
- End Rhyme: A rhyme that comes at the end of a line of verse.
- Most rhyming poetry uses end rhyme.
- Internal Rhyme: A rhyme between two or more words within a line of verse
- When punctuation is used at the end of a line, we say that the line is end-stopped.
- When a sentence runs onto the next line without a break, we call it enjambment.
- Enjambment creates a sense of suspense or excitement and gives added emphasis to the word at the end of the line.
- Alliteration and Assonance: The repetition of sounds in a poem.
- Refrain: The repetition of phrases in a poem.
- A slow rhythm creates a somber mood in the poem, while a quicker-paced rhythm creates a happier, more exciting mood in the poem.
Rhyme:
Most rhyme schemes are described using letters that correspond to sets of rhymes, so if the 1st, 2nd and 4th lines of a quatrain rhyme with each other and the 3rd line does not rhyme, the quatrain is said to have an a-a-b-a rhyme scheme.
Poems that don't have a fixed rhyme scheme or meter (beats per line) are called "free verse".