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English 6-Sound Devices

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Sound devices used in

poetry
1. Twas ten and thirty years ago
2. And o the night was dark and still,
as still as it could be;
that I could hear the seagulls saying:
‘o happiest are the free’.
1. The bang of the gun
Onomatopeia
2. How it swells! How it dwells!
On the future! how it tells
Of the rapture that impels Consonance
3. The frog frolicked frivolously
on the forest floor Alliteration
4. The cow said “mooh, mooh, mooh”
5. Hear the mellow wedding bells Onomatopeia
Assonance
1. A wicked whisper came Alliteration
and changed my life
2. “Woosh, woosh” of the howling Onomatopeia
wind can be heard in darkness
3. I was somewhere and I saw
The cutler, antler, battler
Consonance
4. The house of my friend is hard to reach but when I
arrived, I enjoy the nearby beach”
5. The successful thistle sifter, thrust Assonance
three thousand thistles through the thick of Alliteration
his thumb.
Read the short poem titled “running water by Lee
Emmett. Pick out the words from the poem that
exemplify onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance
and consonance.
water plops into pond
splish-splash downhill
Onomatopeia
warbling magpies in tree
triling, melodic thrill Alliteration
whoosh, passing breeze
flags flutter and flap Assonance
frog croaks, bird whistles
babbling bubbles from the tap Consonance
water plops into pond
water plops into pond warbling magpies in tree
Onomatopeia whoosh, passing breeze
splish-splash downhill frog croaks, bird whistles

warbling magpies in tree splish-splash downhill


triling, melodic thrill
triling, melodic thrill Alliteration flags flutter and flap
babbling bubbles from the tap
whoosh, passing breeze warbling magpies in tree
flags flutter and flap
flags flutter and flap Assonance babbling bubbles from the tap
frog croaks, bird whistles
babbling bubbles from the splish-splash downhill
frog croaks, bird whistles
tap Consonance

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