Analyzing
SOUND DEVICES
Peter Piper picked a peck of
pickled peppers
A peck of pickled peppers Peter
Piper picked
If Peter Piper picked a peck of
pickled peppers
Where’s the peck of pickled
peppers Peter Piper picked?
SOUND DEVICES
tools used by
poets to convey
and reinforce the
meaning or
experience of
poetry through
the SKILLFUL USE
OF SOUND.
Types of Sound
Devices
Onomatopoeia
This is a sound device which
refers to the use of words
whose sounds suggest their
meanings.
Examples
The buzz of The splash of
a bee
the water
The bang of
a gun
Alliteration
This is the repetition of the same
initial consonant sounds of at
least two words in a line of
poetry.
Example
s
Peter Piper The frog
picked a peck of frolicked
pickled peppers. frivolously on
the forest floor.
Assonance
This is the repetition of
vowel sounds at the
beginning, middle or end of
at least two words in a line
of poetry.
Example
"If I bleat when I speak it's
because I just got ... fleeced."
Consonance
Repetition of
consonant sounds
within or at the end of
words. Example
"If I bleat when I speak it's
because I just got ... fleeced."
Rhyme
Repetition of similar sounding
words.
Rhythm
The beat or pattern of stressed
and unstressed syllables in a
line.
Short Practice
Directions: Read each sentence and
circle the onomatopoeic word. Also
explain what makes this noise.
1. During a dangerous mission on
the foreign planet, Spaceman
Spiff zapped the alien with his
ray-gun.
What made the noise?
2. As Daryl was gargling
his mouthwash, he
regretted starting his day
with orange juice.
3. Keith threw his brother
on the ground and the
dishes fell to the floor with
4. As the solider ran
through the field, a bullet
whizzed by his ear.
5. Juan had a hard time
hearing the teacher over
his grumbling stomach.
Short Practice
1. Tired Tasha tasted tomato
soup slowly.
2. An Apple A Day doesn’t keep
the doctor away.
3. Eat your treat within one beat.
Tongue
TwISter
Tournamen
t
(Oral Quiz)
1.Amidst the mists and
coldest frosts, with
stoutest wrists and
loudest boasts, he
thrusts his fists against
the posts and still
2.Through three cheese
trees three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew,
freezy breeze blew. Freezy
breeze made these three
trees freeze. Freezy trees
made these trees’ cheese
freeze. That’s what made
3. A skunk sat on a
stump and thunk
the stump stunk
but the stump
thunk the skunk
4.If a dog
chews shoes,
whose shoes
does he
5. A skunk sat on a
stump and thunk
the stump stunk,
but the stump
thunk the skunk
6. Picky people
pick Peter Pan
Peanut-Butter,
’tis the peanut-
butter picky
7. A flea and a fly
flew up in a flue. Said
the flea, “Let us fly!”
Said the fly, “Let us
flee!” So they flew
through a flaw in the
8. A big black bug
bit the big black
bear, but the big
black bear bit the
bug back!(4x)
9. As he gobbled the
cakes on his plate, the
greedy ape said as he
ate, the greener green
grapes are, the keener
keen apes are to gobble
green grape cakes.
10. How much wood would
a woodchuck chuck if a
woodchuck could chuck
wood? He would chuck, he
would, as much as he could
and chuck as much wood as
a woodchuck would if a
woodchuck could chuck
1.Sure of oneself or one's
abilities.
2. Able to do things on
your own without needing
help.
3. The repetition of
consonant sounds,
typically at the end or
middle of words, in close
proximity.
4. The repetition of vowel
sounds within nearby
4. The repetition of vowel
sounds within nearby
words, especially in
poetry.
5.A figure of speech
where a word imitates the
