1. Note Taking Format TERM NOTES MY TRANSLATION Poetry Unit Literary Term
Name
Date
Period
NOTES MY TRANSLATION
Literary Term
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Poetry Unit

2. TERM: Sound Devices
Poetic devices used to emphasize the sound relationships among words, which often bring fluidity and meaning to a text. These devices include the following:
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
Onomatopoeia
Sound devices can:
Add to the mood of a poem
Imitate the sound of events
Reflect a poem’s meaning

3. What’s the Difference between a CONSONANT and a VOWEL?
Vowels = a, e, i, o, u
Consonants = every other letter in the alphabet

4. Term: Alliteration
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of nearby words:
Examples:
The sound of the singing sisters
The babbling brook
Winter’s worst weather

5. Term: Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby stressed syllables.
Unlike rhyming syllables which have to end with the same consonant (seat and meet), assonant syllables can end in different consonants (seal and greet).
Examples:
She was in a deep and dreamless
sleep.
Row, row, row, your, boat.

6. Term: Consonance
The repetition of final consonant sounds at the ends of nearby stressed syllables with different vowel sounds, as in sit and cat.
Examples:
The heat of the lighting burnt my skin.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Shelley sells shells by the seashore.
Just give me a reason, just a little bit’s enough. Just a second,
we’re not broken just bent
and we can learn to love again.”

7. Term: Onomatopoeia The use of words to imitate actual sounds.
Examples:
BUZZ
ZOOM
BANG
POP
“Beep, Beep, who got the keys to the Jeep? Vroom!”