1. Literary Term Focus

2. Add the following terms to your literary terms Cornell Notes

3. Alliteration Don't delay dawns disarming display .
Alliteration refers to the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of a word(s).
Peter Piper picked a pepper.
Don't delay dawns disarming display .
The cold was blistering, and I stood battered and bewildered by the sudden drop in temperature.

4. Assonance She stepped up to sell herself to the potential employers.
Assonance refers to the repetition of vowel sounds, typically in the middle of a word
She stepped up to sell herself to the potential employers.
Hear the mellow wedding bells.
The drip of the winter waters.

5. Consonance
Consonance is the repetition of sounds at the end of a word.
The bleak slick winter caused some accidents.
She spilled the cold water on his bald head.

6. Consonance Find the Consonance in Our Homemade Limerick.
“Sometimes, I wish I could wash,
My reds with my whites, Josh.
In a flash they’d be done,
If I washed them as one,
But a pink they would be make as they
swish swash, swish swash.

7. Consonance Yellow = Consonance “Sometimes, I wish I could wash,
My reds with my whites, Josh.
In a flash they’d be done,
If I washed them as one,
But a pink they would be make as they
swish swash, swish swash.
Yellow = Consonance

8. Put the terms in alphabetical order
Easiest way to distinguish between Alliteration, Assonance, and Consonance?
Put the terms in alphabetical order
Beginning Middle End
Alliteration Assonance Consonance

9. Repetition The action of repeating words or phrases
Used to emphasize a point or an emotion
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.” -Robert Frost
What point do you think Robert Frost is trying to make
by repeating the last line of the poem twice?

10. What literary devices can you find in the last stanza?
Dying Day
What literary devices can you find in the last stanza?
I’m living in a dark and dying day And everything is lost along the way The feeling in my heart is not the same So what’s to say? The pictures of the past are on the wall They’ll hang there in the dark until they fall Forever I’ve been lost in long ago And it seems so long to let live a life that I don’t live no more And in the saddened sun my life leaves a shadow that’ll soon be gone