1. Identify the sound devices used (rhyme, assonance, alliteration and onomatopoeia)

2. Use the sound devices in writing meaningful sentences

Say this as FAST and as MANY times as you can:

“The summer sun will surely shine soon.”

“The summer sun will surely shine soon.”

What kind of sound device is used in the line?

TRY THIS!What kind of sound device is used in the following lines?

SOME MORE!Rewrite the following sentences using onomatopoeia. Make them sound alive!

FIGURE OUT THE SOUND DEVICE PRESENT IN THE

FOLLOWING

The spider skins lie on their sides, translucent and ragged, their legs drying in knots.

-Annie Dillard

The spider skins lie on their sides, translucent and ragged, their legs drying in knots.

-Annie Dillard

Old age should burn and wave at closing of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light

Do not go gentle into that good night

-Dylan Thomas

Old age should burn and wave at closing of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light

Do not go gentle into that good night

-Dylan Thomas

A pop of the cork and

The cling of the glasses

We toast to the future…

These are the best days of our life

Best Days

-Juice

A pop of the cork and

The cling of the glasses

We toast to the future…

These are the best days of our life

Best Days

-Juice

A winter’s fall

Wears its shawl

To cover just right

The earth with pure white

- Gail Doyle

A winter’s fall

Wears its shawl

To cover just right

The earth with pure white

- Gail Doyle

Those images that yet

Fresh images beget

That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormenting sea.

Byzanthium

-W. B. Yeats

Those images that yet

Fresh images beget

That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormenting sea.

Byzanthium

-W. B. Yeats

Full fathom five thy father lies

- William Shakespeare

Full fathom five thy father lies

- William Shakespeare

Tsk, tsk, tsk…what a bad decision that was.

Tsk, tsk, tsk…what a bad decision that was.

As I went down to the woods last night

I was faced with a big surprise

The bears and birds all in the wood

Were partying in disguise

excerpt from A Teddy Bears Picnic by David Williams

As I went down to the woods last night

I was faced with a big surprise

The bears and birds all in the wood

Were partying in disguise

excerpt from A Teddy Bears Picnic by David Williams

The pit bull yelped

As the police took him away

Never to growl again

At us kids in play

- D. Alsup

The pit bull yelped

As the police took him away

Never to growl again

At us kids in play

- D. Alsup

References:

• CALLIOPE by Barday Lipson, Ed.D.• http://examples.yourdictionary.com/• http://www.ereadingsheets.com/figurative-la

nguage/poetic_devises• www.poetrysoup.com