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Bell Ringer Activity
How do you feel about poetry? If
you like it, tell me why. If you don’t
like it, tell me why not?
Record your answers on the
worksheet provided.
Keep the worksheet in your
notebook, it will be graded!
Mrs. Harris
10th Grade Literature
October 23, 2012
CCGPS Standards
• ELACC9-10L5: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language,
word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
– a. Interpret figures of speech (e.g., euphemism, oxymoron) in context
and analyze their role in the text.
– b. Analyze nuances in the meaning of words with similar denotations.
• ELACC9-10L6: Acquire and use accurately general academic and
domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing,
speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level;
demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge
when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or
expression.
What is a sound device?
• Sound devices are resources used by poets to
convey meaning through the skillful use of
sound.
• Poets use sound and imagery to create an
emotional response.
Alliteration
The repetition of initial
consonant sounds:
Porky Pig ate a platter of
pot roast
Example of Alliteration
Excerpt from
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds
within words: goat, bowl, scold
• Examples are harder to find and are
more subtle than the other devices
• Often used to “set the mood” in a
poem.
Example of Assonance
“West Beast East Beast” by Dr. Seuss
Upon an island hard to reach,
The East Beast sits upon his beach.
Upon the west beach sits the West Beast.
Each beach beast thinks he's the best beast.
Which beast is best?...Well, I thought at first,
That the East was best and the West was
worst.
Then I looked again from the west to the east
And I liked the beast on the east beach least.
Consonance
The repetition of sounds
within or at the end of
words: butler, antler,
battler
Example of Consonance
Excerpt from “Zealots”
By the Fugees (Lauryn Hill)
Rap rejects my tape deck, ejects projectile
Whether Jew or Gentile, I rank top percentile,
Many styles, More powerful than gamma rays
My grammar pays, like Carlos Santana plays
Onomatopoeia
The use of words that
sound like what they
refer to: clop, bang, thud
Example of Onomatopoeia
Excerpt from “The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe
Hear the sledges 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,
Review
• Alliteration: The repetition of initial
consonant sounds: Porky Pig ate a platter of
pot roast
• Assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds
within words: goat, bowl, scold
• Consonance: The repitition of sounds within
or at the end of words: butler, antler, battler
• Onomatopoeia: The use of words that sound
like what they refer to: clop, bang, thud
Practice
Read the following lines of poetry and identify
examples of sound devices:
Water rushing, / gushing, / pushing / past the
limits of the edge.
Water barrels off the ledge, / whipping up the
bottom sludge,
Practice
BUTTER BRICKLE PEPPER PICKLE
POMEGRANATE PUMPERNICKEL
PEACH PIMENTO PIZZA PLUM
PEANUT PUMPKIN BUBBLEGUM
Practice
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage, against the dying of the light. . . .
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
– “Do Not Go Gentle into the Good Night” by Dylan
Thomas
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Patrician (n) an aristocrat
Emissary (n) one sent on a special mission to represent
Fracas (n) a loud quarrel or fight
Lacerate (v) to tear (flesh) jaggedly
Futile (adj) useless; pointless
Carp (v) to complain or find fault in a petty or nagging way
Query (v) to ask; to inquire
Nefarious (adj) very wicked; notorious
Genesis (n) beginning; origin
Façade (n) a deceptive outward appearance; a
misrepresentation
Essential Questions:
• What are sound devices?
• How will understanding sound devices help me
understand poetry better?
• What are some different types of sound devices?
• What are some examples of sound devices?
• How do sound devices affect the mood of a
poem?
• Write down your favorite sound device and an
example of that device on the index card
provided.
• Bonus points if you spell it correctly!! 
• Give your exit slip to Mrs. Harris before you
leave.