This document discusses the literary devices of onomatopoeia and alliteration and provides examples from two poems. It defines onomatopoeia as words that imitate sounds and alliteration as the repetition of initial sounds. Students are asked to identify examples of onomatopoeia from poems by Edgar Allan Poe and Gwendolyn Brooks, including words like "tinkle" and "flitter-twitters." They are also tasked with discussing examples of alliteration from Poe's "The Raven," such as repeated "w" sounds in "weak and weary" and "wrought its ghost." Finally, students are instructed to create their own poem using onomatopoeia.

1. Using Sound Devices to Enhance a Poem Onomatopoeiaand Alliteration

2. The use of words to imitate sounds, or suggest a particular meaningWhat is Onomatopoeia?

3. Examples of Onomatopoeia

4. “The Bells”By Edgar Allen PoeHear the sledges with the bells-Silver bells!What a world of merriment their melody foretells!How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,In the icy air of night!While the stars that over sprinkleAll the heavens, seem to twinkleWith a crystalline delight;Keeping time, time, time,In a sort of Runic rhyme,To the tintinnabulation that so musically wellsFrom the bells, bells, bells, bells,Bells, bells, bells-From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.In your notebooks, write down the examples of Onomatopoeia.

5. Tinkle, tinkle, tinkle

6. Tintinnabulation

7. Repetition of bells

8. jinglingExamples of Onomatopoeiain “The Bells”

9. “Cynthia in the Snow”By: Gwendolyn Brooks It SHUSHESIt hushesThe loudness in the road.It flitter-twitters,And laughs away from me.It laughs a lovely whiteness,And whitely whirs away,To beSome otherwhere,Still white as milk or shirts,So beautiful it hurts. In your notebook, write down examples of onomatopoeia.(Bonus: Notice any examples of alliteration?)

10. Hushes

11. Slushes

12. Flitter twitters

13. Whirs

14. hurtsExamples of Onomatopoeiain “Cynthia in the Snow”

15. Alliteration is the repetition of certain sounds at the beginning of a word or within a wordWhat is Alliteration?

16. Examples of Alliteration

17. “The Raven”By Edgar Allen PoeOnce upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.`'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -Only this, and nothing more.'Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrowFrom my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore -For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore -Nameless here for evermore…With a partner, discuss examples of Alliteration in this poem.

18. Create a Poem using OnomatopoeiaWhat are some possible topics? Your Assignment