This document defines and provides examples of various sound devices used in literature to add meaning and create engaging stories and poems. It discusses devices such as alliteration, assonance, consonance, cacophony, euphony, onomatopoeia, repetition, and rhyme. These sound devices help readers form mental images and understand the mood and tone of a work by reinforcing meaning when read aloud internally. The document provides definitions and examples for each device to illustrate how they are used in creative writing.

1. Various
LITERARY
DEVICES
Prepared By: Ruby Jean Camisa
Teacher I- Bulan National High School

2. Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, you are expected
to:
• Identify the figures of speech and other
literary techniques in a text,
• Explain the use of language in literature
as well as the formal features and
conventions of literature, and
• Use different literary devices in your own
writing.

3. > are distinct structures used to add
meaning or create a more captivating story
or poem
Literary devices (or literary techniques)

4. SOUND DEVICES
Alliteration Assonance
Consonance
Cacophony
Euphony
Onomatopoeia
Repetition
Rhyme

5. SOUND DEVICES
used to reinforce the meaning of poetry.
Since poems are originally meant to be read
aloud, sound devices help you form visual
images and highlight the mood and tone of
poetry
can also be used in stories and novels for the
same reason as they are used in poetry
because as we read, we hear an inner voice in
our heads reading the text to us

6. Mood- feeling that the reader gets while
reading
Tone- feeling that the writer wants to convey

7. the repetition of similar sounds, either consonants
or vowels at the beginning of closely spaced words
Example:
“Suffering Stan stays in the sun to keep from having
to stutter.”

8. the repetition of similar sounds, either consonants
or vowels at the beginning of closely spaced words
Example:
“Suffering Stan stays in the sun to keep from having
to stutter.”

9. Example:
Pretty Princess
Busy as a Bee

10. the repetition of vowel sounds that form internal
rhymes in a line
Example:
“Faye’s days are lazy and wasteful.”

11. the repetition of vowel sounds that form internal
rhymes in a line
Example:
“Faye’s days are lazy and wasteful.”

12. Example:
Tune and Food
Folks growing old

13. the repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the
end of words
Example:
“Wash the leash off of mush to keep Ash from having
a rash.”

14. the repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the
end of words
Example:
“Wa the lea off of mu to keep A from having
a ra .”

15. Example:
Boa and Nigh
Coo and Sou

16. the use of jarring, unpleasant sounds, usually harsh
because the sounds do not go together; meant to
convey disorder and would sometimes be hard to
pronounce
Example:
“Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble
in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves
And the mome raths outgrabe”
Excerpt from “Jabberwocky” by Lewis
Carroll

17. the use of jarring, unpleasant sounds, usually harsh
because the sounds do not go together; meant to
convey disorder and would sometimes be hard to
pronounce
Example:
“Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble
in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves
And the mome raths outgrabe”
Excerpt from “Jabberwocky” by Lewis
Carroll

18. Example:
Crawling, sprawling, breaching spokes of stone

19. the use of devices such as alliteration, rhyme, and
assonance; meant to create a pleasant experience to the
ear;combination of melodious sound
Example:
“Than Oars divide the Ocean,
Too silver for a seam—
Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon
Leap, plashless as they swim.”
Excerpt from “A Bird came down the Walk” by Emily

20. the use of devices such as alliteration, rhyme, and
assonance; meant to create a pleasant experience to the
ear
Example:
“Than Oars divide the Ocean,
Too silver for a seam—
Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon
Leap, plashless as they swim.”
Excerpt from “A Bird came down the Walk” by Emily

21. the use of words that mimic the natural sound of what is
being described
Example:
buzz, meow, bark, hiss, squeak
I heard the buzzing of the bees and the hissing of the
snakes.
The door creaked when I opened it.

22. the repetition of words or phrases to form
rhythm or to emphasize an idea
Example:
“In every cry of every man,
In every infant’s cry of fear
In every voice, in every ban
The mind-forg’d manacles I hear”
Excerpt from “London” by William

23. the repetition of words or phrases to form
rhythm or to emphasize an idea
Example:
“In every cry of every man,
In every infant’s cry of fear
In every voice, in every ban
The mind-forg’d manacles I hear”
Excerpt from “London” by William

24. the repetition of identical (or similar) sounds
in two or more words, most often at the end of
lines in a poem
Types:
> Full rhymes
>Slant or half rhymes
>Near rhymes
>Sight rhymes

25. words that sound alike on both the consonant
and vowel sounds; all their syllables rhyme
Example:
beach, reach, teach
linger, finger

26. words that have the same final consonant
sounds but different initial consonants and
vowels
Example:
call, bowl, sell ,
back, wreck, tuck

27. words with the same final vowel sounds but
different final consonants
Example:
soil, coin, choice
crane, rake, tale

28. words or the end of words are usually spelled
the same but are pronounced differently
Example:
love, trove
bough, enough
call, appall

29. Did you understand the kinds of sound
devices used in literature?

30. Literature is FUN right?