Sound Effects in Poetry

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Sound Effects in Poetry
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Rhythm

• The rise and fall of our voices as we use
  language
• Ex Day after day, day after day,
• We stuck, nor breath or motion
• As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted
  ocean.

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Rhyme

• the repetition of the sound of a stressed
  syllable
• Example court and sport, smother and another

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Alliteration

• the repetition of consonant sounds in words that
  are close together
• Example A Tutor (repetition of t sounds)
• A tutor who tooted the flute
• Tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
• Said the two to the tutor,
• Is it harder to toot, or
• To tutor two tooters to toot?

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Onomatopoeia

• the use of words with sounds that echo their
  sense
• Example crash, bang, boom, hiss, toot