This will tackle alliteration, assonance and onomatopoeia

2. POETIC
DEVICES
ALLITERATION, ASSONANCE
AND ONOMATOPOEIA
Prepared by:
Marilette Eusebio and Angela Delos
Reyes

3. DID YOUKNOW ?
Poetic devices are tools for
creating rhythm and enhancing mood
andmeaningofapoem.

4. LET’S START WITH…

5. DID YOUKNOW?

6. ALLITERATION
Series of words in a row (or close
together) have the same first
consonant sound.

7. Commonexamplesof
alliterationarefoundin
tonguetwisters…
DID YOU KNOW?

9. “She sells
sea-shells
down by the
sea-shore.”

10. “Larry’s lizard likes leaping
leopards.”

11. “Mike’s
microphon
e made
much
music.”

12. MOST OF THE TIME,
WRITERS USED
ALLITERATION IN
LITERARY PIECES.
Here’s an
excerpt from…

13. She walks in
beauty like
the night,
Of cloudless
climes and
starry skies.

14. NOW LET’S TALKABOUT…

15. DID YOUKNOW?
Assonance refers to the
repetition of a vowel sound in
a lineof text or poetry.

17. "Try to light the fire.”

18. “The crumbling thunder
of seas.”
- Robert Louis
Stevenson

19. "Hear the
mellow
wedding
bells."
- Edgar Allan Poe

20. “I lie down by the
side for my bride.”
- Pink Floyd

21. ONOMATOPOEIA
Defined as a word which
imitates the natural sounds ofa
thing.

24. “The books fell on
the table with a
loud thump.”

25. “The rustling
leaves kept me
awake.”

26. “The buzzing bee
flew away. “

27. That would
be all.
Thank you!