Sound Devices

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Sound Devices
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Alliteration

• The repetition of beginning consonant sounds in
  neighboring word
• Tongue twisters are an extreme example.
• She sells sea shells down by the sea shore.
• Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

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Alliteration Examples

• It was the wicked and wild wind Blew down the
  doors to let me in - Coldplay
• Karma, Karma, Karma Chameleon, you come and go
  Culture Club
• Better be a better boy before you bother betting
  youll bring her back home again- Mick Terry

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Consonance

• Consonance- the repetition of middle or consonant
  sounds in neighboring words
• Doug ate twelve cakes and now seems to have a
  stomach issues.

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Assonance

• The repetition of vowel sounds in neighboring
  words
• Ted and Katie went to see a tree being planted
  on the first day of spring.

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Assonance Examples

• You better lose yourself in the music, the
  moment You own it, you better never let it
  goYou only get one shot, do not miss your chance
  to blow This opportunity comes once in a
  lifetime- Eminem
• You see these shackles baby, Im your slave
  Justin Timberlake
• Whisper words of wisdom, let it be - Beatles

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Consonance and Assonance Examples

• Id like to make myself believe, that planet
  Earth turns slowly Owl City
• Ive got sunshine on a cloudy day When its
  cold outside, Ive got the month of May The
  Temptations
• In a second youll be wrapped around my finger,
  cause I can, cause I can do it better- Avril
  Lavigne

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Onomatopoeia

• The use of words to imitate sounds
• Animal sounds (moo, ribbit, cluck, ruff)
• Noises (zoom, boom, sizzle, fizzle)

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Onomatopoeia Examples

• Clang, clang, clang went the trolley Judy
  Garland
• On his farm he had a pig, ei ei o, with an oink,
  oink here and an oink, oink there- Old Macdonald
• I like that Boom Boom Pow Black Eye Peas
• Rockin Robin, tweet, tweet Jackson 5