1. You will need your English Binder!
Sound Devices
You will need your English Binder!

2. Alliteration Review
What is alliteration?
Examples?

3. Consonance
The repetition, close together, of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words.
“C” for Consonance! “Conson” from “Consonant”!
Ex: I had to think about the blank on the form at the bank.
How is this different from rhyming poetry?

4. Practice
Whose woods these are I think I know His house is in the village, though;… “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost
The words on the end rhyme, but the consonance is the “s” sound on both lines carried through

5. Assonance
The repetition of a pattern of similar vowel sounds, typically with different consonants following the repeated vowel.
Ex: The plate was shapely and well-made.
Ex: From the molten-golden notes

6. Assonance
You only need one repetition to make assonance. Doing it twice is difficult enough as it is!
Requirement: the sound must be inside the word
The beginning = alliteration
The end = rhyme

7. So… “The Eagle…”
Let’s take a look at the sounds devices in “The Eagle.”
…Psst! Don’t worry… I did it for you. 

8. “The Eagle” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring’d with azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watched from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Bold – alliteration
Underlined – assonance
Highlighted – consonance
Italics – rhyme

9. Practice – Identify the sound device!
1.) Ghostly gables graced the haunted house. 2.) Susan was mad because the candy fell into the sand. 3.) “You slacker, get back to work.” “Don’t give me flack.” 4.) The moon rose as soon as Ballou began to croon. 5.) Singing teenagers clinging to the tires floated down the river.
1.) Alliteration
2.) Assonance
3.) Consonance
4.) Assonance
5.) Alliteration/consonance/assonance (yeesh.)

10. Check for Understanding
We will read the first two stanzas of “The Bells” by Edgar Allen Poe together.
In your table groups, you will examine your handout and find examples of alliteration, assonance, and consonance, repetition, and rhyme.
Reflect: What do the sound devices do to the feeling of the poem?