The document discusses various sound devices used in poetry including alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia. It explains that these devices are used to emphasize meaning and create mood by repeating certain sounds. Authors intentionally use sound devices to produce specific sound qualities that reinforce the themes or feelings in their writing.

1. Sound
The sound must seem an echo of the sense
-Alexander Pope-

2. Sound
The sound must seem an echo of the sense
-Alexander Pope-

3. Sound
The sound must seem an echo of the sense
-Alexander Pope-

4. Sound
The sound must seem an echo of the sense
-Alexander Pope-

5. Sound
The sound must seem an echo of the sense
-Alexander Pope-

6. Sound
The sound must seem an echo of the sense
-Alexander Pope-

7. Sound
The sound must seem an echo of the sense
-Alexander Pope-

8. Sound

9. Sound
✦ The sound of what is said should reinforce the
meaning of what is said.

10. Sound
✦ The sound of what is said should reinforce the
meaning of what is said.
✦ How are sounds made in speech?

11. Sound
✦ The sound of what is said should reinforce the
meaning of what is said.
✦ How are sounds made in speech?
✦ Alliteration

12. Sound
✦ The sound of what is said should reinforce the
meaning of what is said.
✦ How are sounds made in speech?
✦ Alliteration
✦ Assonance

13. Sound
✦ The sound of what is said should reinforce the
meaning of what is said.
✦ How are sounds made in speech?
✦ Alliteration
✦ Assonance
✦ Consonance

14. Sound
✦ The sound of what is said should reinforce the
meaning of what is said.
✦ How are sounds made in speech?
✦ Alliteration
✦ Assonance
✦ Consonance
✦ Onomatopoeia

15. Alliteration

16. Alliteration
✦ The use of the same letter or sounds at the
beginning of words that make the same sounds

17. Alliteration
✦ The use of the same letter or sounds at the
beginning of words that make the same sounds
✦ Sing a song of six pence...

18. Assonance

19. Assonance
✦ Repetition of identical vowel sounds in words
which are close together.

20. Assonance
✦ Repetition of identical vowel sounds in words
which are close together.
✦ So we’ll go no more a-roving...

21. Consonance

22. Consonance
✦ Repetition of consonant sounds at the
beginning, middle or at the end of words in a
line.

23. Consonance
✦ Repetition of consonant sounds at the
beginning, middle or at the end of words in a
line.
Pike, three inches long, perfect

24. Consonance
✦ Repetition of consonant sounds at the
beginning, middle or at the end of words in a
line.
Pike, three inches long, perfect
Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold

25. Consonance
✦ Repetition of consonant sounds at the
beginning, middle or at the end of words in a
line.
Pike, three inches long, perfect
Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold

26. Consonance
✦ Repetition of consonant sounds at the
beginning, middle or at the end of words in a
line.
Pike, three inches long, perfect
Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold

27. Consonance
✦ Repetition of consonant sounds at the
beginning, middle or at the end of words in a
line.
Pike, three inches long, perfect
Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold

28. Consonance
✦ Repetition of consonant sounds at the
beginning, middle or at the end of words in a
line.
Pike, three inches long, perfect
Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold

29. Consonance
✦ Repetition of consonant sounds at the
beginning, middle or at the end of words in a
line.
Pike, three inches long, perfect
Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold

30. Consonance
✦ Repetition of consonant sounds at the
beginning, middle or at the end of words in a
line.
Pike, three inches long, perfect
Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold

31. Consonance
✦ Repetition of consonant sounds at the
beginning, middle or at the end of words in a
line.
Pike, three inches long, perfect
Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold

32. Onomatopoeia

33. Onomatopoeia
✦ Words containing sounds similar to noises

34. Onomatopoeia
✦ Words containing sounds similar to noises
✦ Hiss

35. Onomatopoeia
✦ Words containing sounds similar to noises
✦ Hiss
✦ Bang

36. Onomatopoeia
✦ Words containing sounds similar to noises
✦ Hiss
✦ Bang
✦ thud

37. Why use sound devices?

38. Why use sound devices?
✦ What a dull, dreary day!

39. Why use sound devices?
✦ What a dull, dreary day!
✦ The ‘D’ sound emphasizes the dreariness of
the moment

40. Why use sound devices?
✦ What a dull, dreary day!
✦ The ‘D’ sound emphasizes the dreariness of
the moment
✦ She sells seashells on the seashore!

41. Why use sound devices?
✦ What a dull, dreary day!
✦ The ‘D’ sound emphasizes the dreariness of
the moment
✦ She sells seashells on the seashore!
✦ The S sounds creates a soft sound of the
sea - like waves producing a mood.

42. Why use sound devices?
✦ What a dull, dreary day!
✦ The ‘D’ sound emphasizes the dreariness of
the moment
✦ She sells seashells on the seashore!
✦ The S sounds creates a soft sound of the
sea - like waves producing a mood.

43. Why use sound devices?
✦ What a dull, dreary day!
✦ The ‘D’ sound emphasizes the dreariness of
the moment
✦ She sells seashells on the seashore!
✦ The S sounds creates a soft sound of the
sea - like waves producing a mood.

44. Analyzing sound

45. Analyzing sound
1. What device is being used? Alliteration?
assonance? Consonance?

46. Analyzing sound
1. What device is being used? Alliteration?
assonance? Consonance?
2. Which consonant/vowel is being repeated?
What sound quality is produced? Hard? Soft?

47. Analyzing sound
1. What device is being used? Alliteration?
assonance? Consonance?
2. Which consonant/vowel is being repeated?
What sound quality is produced? Hard? Soft?
3. Refer to the context of the poem. State the
poet’s intention and what point is he making or
what mood is he producing with that sound?

48. Practice

49. Practice
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck

50. Practice
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?

51. Practice
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?
A woodchuck would chuck so much wood

52. Practice
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?
A woodchuck would chuck so much wood
If a woodchuck could chuck wood.

53. Blow, Bugle, Blow

54. Blow, Bugle, Blow
✦ Pg 100 Mining For Meaning
✦ Listen to the poem being read then read it
yourself and try to analyze the sounds being
used.

55. Application

56. Application
✦ Listen to the poem Merry Wanderer of the Night
✦ Read the excerpt and answer the questions
that follow in your journal.

57. Application
✦ Listen to the poem Merry Wanderer of the Night
✦ Read the excerpt and answer the questions
that follow in your journal.