Transcript Sound Devices in Poetry

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B.
C.
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Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Assonance
consonance
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B.
C.
D.
Assonance
Consonance
Alliteration
rhyme
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B.
C.
D.
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Assonance
rhyme
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B.
C.
D.
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Consonance
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B.
C.
D.
Repetition
Onomatopoeia
Consonance
alliteration
Hear the sleighs with the bells Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
Sound Device
Specific Example
Effect it creates
Hear the mellow wedding bells Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!
From the molten-golden notes,
And all in tune,
What a liquid ditty floats
To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats
On the moon!
Oh, from out the sounding cells
What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!
How it swells!
How it dwells
On the Future! -how it tells
Of the rapture that impels
To the swinging and the ringing
Of the bells, bells, bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
Sound Device
Specific Example
Effect it creates
This highlighted portions of this poem are best
representing which sound device?
a. Assonance
b. Consonance
c.
Alliteration
d. rhyme
Hear the loud alarum bells Brazen bells!
What a tale of terror, now, their
turbulency tells!
In the startled ear of night
How they scream out their affright!
Too much horrified to speak,
They can only shriek, shriek,
Out of tune,
In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of
the fire,
In a mad expostulation with the deaf and
frantic fire,
Leaping higher, higher, higher,
With a desperate desire,
And a resolute endeavor
Now -now to sit or never,
By the side of the pale-faced moon.
Oh, the bells, bells, bells!
What a tale their terror tells
Of despair!
How they clang, and clash, and roar!
What a horror they outpour
On the bosom of the palpitating air!
Yet the ear it fully knows,
By the twanging
And the clanging,
How the danger ebbs and flows;
Yet the ear distinctly tells,
In the jangling
And the wrangling,
How the danger sinks and swells,
By the sinking or the swelling in the
anger of the bells Of the bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells In the clamor and the clangor of the
bells!
The highlighted portion of these lines best
represents which sound device:
a. Assonance
b. Rhyme
c.
Alliteration
d. Consonance
Hear the tolling of the bells Iron bells!
What a world of solemn
thought their monody
compels!
In the silence of the
night,
How we shiver with
affright
At the melancholy
menace of their tone!
For every sound that
floats
From the rust within
their throats
Is a groan.
And the people -ah, the
people They that dwell up in the
steeple,
All alone,
And who tolling, tolling,
tolling,
In that muffled
monotone,
Feel a glory in so rolling
On the human heart a
stone They are neither man
nor woman They are neither brute
nor human They are Ghouls:
And their king it is who
tolls;
And he rolls, rolls, rolls,
Rolls
A paean from the bells!
And his merry bosom
swells
With the paean of the
bells!
And he dances, and he
yells;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the paean of the bells,
Of the bells Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the throbbing of the
bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells To the sobbing of the
bells;
Keeping time, time, time,
As he knells, knells,
knells,
In a happy Runic rhyme,
To the rolling of the
bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells To the tolling of the
bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells,
bells,
Bells, bells, bells To the moaning and the
groaning of the bells.
Which sound device is represented in the
highlighted words above?
a. Assonance
b. Consonance
c.
Alliteration
d. Onomatopoeia

Write one paragraph that discusses the author’s
purpose in using sound devices in this poem and
what the effect the sound devices had on the
reader’s (your) experience with the poem. This
should be 5-7 sentences, including a topic sentence,
supporting details, and your interpretation.
OR
 Write a poem of your own that includes EACH of
the sound devices we’ve discussed today.
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anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn't he danced his did.
Women and men (both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn't they reaped their
same
sun moon stars rain
children guessed (but only a few
and down they forgot as up they grew
autumn winter spring summer)
that noone loved him more by more
when by now and tree by leaf
she laughed his joy she cried his grief
bird by snow and stir by still
anyone's any was all to her
someones married their everyones
laughed their cryings and did their
dance
(sleep wake hope and then)they
said their nevers they slept their dream
stars rain sun moon
(and only the snow can begin to explain
how children are apt to forget to
remember
with up so floating many bells down)
one day anyone died i guess
(and noone stooped to kiss his face)
busy folk buried them side by side
little by little and was by was
all by all and deep by deep
and more by more they dream their
sleep
noone and anyone earth by april
with by spirit and if by yes.
Women and men (both dong and ding)
summer autumn winter spring
reaped their sowing and went their came
sun moon stars rain