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3-2-12
•Review:
•Analyzing a Poem
Today’s Agenda
• MINI LESSON: Sound devices in
poetry
• WORK TIME: Scavenger Hunt for
sound devices in the SAME poems!
• HOMEWORK: finish the Scavenger
Hunt
Personification
• When a writer makes a thing, idea, or an
animal do something only humans can
do
• When a non-human subject is given
human characteristics
• Example-The wind yells.
Personification continued…
Create your own personification
examples using the following nouns.
-iPod - Uggs
-Kindle
-Laptop
Hyperbole
• an extreme exaggeration
• can be used to create mood and evoke
strong feelings
• Example: “I ate a billion cookies!”
Hyperbole continued…
Create a hyperbole about your PCR
book’s protagonist, or about
something the protagonist did.
• Example-”Cap Anderson’s hair stands
ten feet high!”
Alliteration
• the repetition of a consonant sound or sounds at the
beginning of words that are close together.
• Two repeated sounds is ok; three is better!
• Example:
Hear the loud alarum bells-Brazen bells!
What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
--Edgar Allen Poe, "The Bells"
Alliteration
• Create an alliteration • Crazy kids in
using your PCR
Connections not
book’s title.
being kind
• It should convey the
book’s mood.
Onomatopoeia
• the use of words to imitate sounds
• words whose sounds suggest their
meaning
Zoom
Buzz
Ding dong
Beep
Zing
POW
Rattle
RING
Sizzle
Fizz
Ping
SNAP!
BOOM!
Whack
Bang
Hiss
Pop
Crackle
Hum
Onomatopoeia
• Give an example of onomatopoeia for each
category.
-car sound
-an animal
• Invent an onomatopoeia word to imitate a
sound.
Rhyme
• Repetition of sounds at the end of words
• Gives a song-like quality to a poem
end rhyme -words rhyming at the end of lines
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a Hemlock tree
from “Dust of Snow” by Robert Frost
internal rhyme -rhyming words within lines
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
from “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
Couplet
• A structure of some poems
• A pair of lines that have an end rhyme
Example:
He came upon an age
Beset by grief, by rage
from “Martin Luther King” by
Raymond Richard Patterson
Rhythm
• Pattern of repeated stressed and unstressed
syllables.
• In poetry and music, it creates a beat or pulse.
Example: Pause at the /
“I pledge allegiance/ to the Flag/ of the United States of
America/ and to the Republic/ for which it stands/one
nation/under God/ indivisible/with liberty /and justice for all.“
Non-Example: Pause at the /
“I pledge/ allegiance to the Flag of/ the United States of America/
and /to the Republic for which it stands, one nation/ under God
indivisible with liberty /and justice for all."
Rhythm
• Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in
language
Sound Devices in MUSIC
Listen and T2T for these songs: find figurative
language and sound devices!
“Unwritten” lyrics
“Life is a Highway” lyrics
“Unwritten” song
“Life is a Highway” song
Feel free to bring in or email a favorite song that is full of sound
devices and figurative language!
Scavenger Hunt
Part 2
Use the same
poems from
yesterday’s
scavenger hunt to
find sound
devices.