POETRY

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POETRY

• SOUND DEVICES

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• Sound Devices enhance a poems mood and meaning.

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Alliteration

• Repetition of CONSONATE sounds at the beginning
  of words
• Like tongue twisters
• Slippery slope
• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
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Repetition

• Use of any element of language a sound, word,
  phrase, clause, or sentence more than once.
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Assonance

• Repetition of vowel sounds followed by different
  consonants in stressed syllables
• Blade, maze

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Consonance

• Repetition of similar consonant sounds at the
  ENDS of accented syllables
• Wind, sand

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Onomatopoeia

• Use of words that imitate sounds
• Crash
• Bang
• Hiss
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Rhyme

• Repetition of sounds at the ends of words
• Speech, teach
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Meter

• A poems rhythmical pattern in a poem
• Measured in feet or single units of stressed and
  unstressed syllables
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Rhythm

• Poems pattern of stressed () and unstressed (U)
  syllables
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