Sound of devices in poetry

sound of devices in poetry

definition sound devices

rhythm
definition and example
rhyme
definition and example
alliteration
definition and example
assonance
definition and example
consonance
definition and example
onomatopea
definition and example

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1. Sound of devices used in poetry created by : Diah D esti L estari Toni Hirsam

2. Definition of sound devices Sound devices are resources used by poets to convey and reinforce the meaning or experience of poetry through the skillful use of sound. After all, poets are trying to use a concentrated blend of sound and imagery to create an emotional response. The words and their order should evoke images, and the words themselves have sounds, which can reinforce or otherwise clarify those images. All in all, the poet is trying to get you, the reader, to sense a particular thing, and the use of sound devices are some of the poet’s tools .

3. T he sound pattern created by stressed and unstressed syllables. The pattern can be regular or random . RHYTHM

4. Pattern of Rhythm The organization of voice patterns, in terms of both the arrangement of stresses and their frequency of repetition per line of verse. The conscious measure of the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. The unit of meter. Metrical lines are named for the constituent foot and for the number of feet in the line: monometer (1), dimeter (2), trimeter (3), tetrameter (4), pentameter (5), hexameter (6), heptameter (7) and octameter (8) ; thus, a line containing five iambic feet, for example, would be called iambic pentameter . METER SCANSION FEET

5. Example: I think that I shall ne ver see a po em love ly as a tree . The purple words/syllables are “stressed”, and they have a regular pattern, so this poetic line has “meter”. When the night begins to fall And the sky begins to glow You look up and see the tall City of lights begin to grow – In rows and little golden squares The lights come out. First here, then there Behind the windowpanes as though A million billion bees had built Their golden hives and honeycombs Above you in the air. By Mary Britton Miller Where Are You Now? The rhythm in this poem is slow – to match the night gently falling and the lights slowly coming on.

6. RHYME Rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words, most often in the final syllables of lines in poems and songs. Types of rhyme : End rhymes appear at the end of two or more lines of poetry . Internal rhymes appear within a single line of poetry .

7. Example of end rhyme and internal rhyme : Snow makes whiteness where it falls . The bushes look like popcorn balls . And places where I always play , Look like somewhere else today . By Marie Louise Allen The Raven Once upon a midnight DREARY , while I pondered weak and WEARY While I nodded, nearly NAPPING , suddenly there came a TAPPING By Edgar Allan Poe First Snow

8. Example : S lowly , s ilently, now the moon Walks the night in her s ilver s oon ; This way, and that, s he peers, and s ees S ilver fruit upon s ilver trees … from Silver by Walter de la Mare I j iggled it j aggled it j erked it. I p ushed and p ulled and p oked it. But – As s oon as I s topped, A nd left it a lone T his t ooth came out O n its very o wn! by Lee Bennett Hopkins This Tooth

9. ASSONANCE A repetition of vowel sounds within words or syllables. P o etry is o ld, ancient, g o es back far. It is am o ng the o ldest o f living things. S o o ld it is that n o man kn o ws how and why the first p o ems came. --Carl Sandburg, Early Moon Fl ee t f ee t sw ee p by sl ee ping g ee se. Fr ee and easy. M a ke the gr a de. The st o ny walls encl o sed the h o ly space.

10. CONSONANCE The repetition of consonant sounds within word. Example : And the silken sad un c ertain ru s tling of each purple curtain.” –Edgar Allen Poe