1. Sound Devices PRE-IB 9 English

2. Poets use special effects. Sound Devices can make a poem seem as peaceful as ocean waves lapping on the shore or as intense as a close race. Imagery and figurative language create word pictures that help you imagine things as vividly as if you were seeing them unfold on a movie screen.

3. RHYME AND RHYTHM “A word is dead”- Poem by Emily Dickenson A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day “A word is dead” 1. List the two pairs of rhyming words. 2. Mark the stressed and unstressed syllables in the second stanza. 3. How does the rhythm in this stanza compare with the first stanza?

4. SOUND DEVICES Sound devices give poems a musical quality, but they can also create a mood and emphasize important ideas or words.

5. Sound devices poets use:  Rhyme - the repetition of sounds at the end of words, as in me and see.  Rhythm - the pattern of stressed (′) and unstressed (˘) syllables in each line (A poem with a repeating pattern has what is called a meter.)

6. Sound devices poets use: Repetition - the use of a word, phrase, or line more than once. Alliteration- the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words, such as the c in curved crook. “a lovely, lilting lullaby” MEANING- pleasant, calm, happy “the droning, deadly drumbeat” MEANING- threatening, ominous) Example: The repeated phrases and the alliteration in the last line help to emphasize the moon’s shape. How thin and sharp is the moon tonight! How thin and sharp and ghostly white. Is the slim c urved c rook of the moon tonight! – “Winter Moon” by Langston Hughes

7. Other Sound Devices “Cynthia in the Snow” Poem by Gwendolyn Brooks It SUSHES. It hushes The loudness in the road. It flitter-twitters, And laughs away from me. It laughs a lovely whiteness, And whitely whirs away, To be Some otherwhere, Still white as milk or shirts. So beautiful it hurts. “Cynthia in the Snow” 1. What onomatopoeic words does the poet use to suggest the silencing effect of falling snow? 2. The use of alliteration helps to create the mood in the poem. List two examples of alliteration and describe the mood they create. 3. Identify three pairs of rhymes and explain what the rhyme helps to emphasize in the poem.