Reminder: Before you answer the activities below, read and copy first the key points in your

English notebook.
KEY POINTS.
Sound devices – are special tools the poet can use to create certain effects in the poem to
convey and reinforce meaning through sound.
- are literary elements used in prose and poetry to stress certain sounds and
create musical effects.
Types of Sound Devices
1. Alliteration – is the repetition of consonant sound at the beginning of the words
Ex: The grass grew green in the graveyard.
(The bold letter g at the beginning of the words grass, grew, green, and graveyard is
a consonant sound.)
2. Assonance – is the repetition of consonant sounds within words
Ex: The snow in the rose garden groaned.
(The bold letter o at the middle of the words snow, rose, and groaned is a vowel
sound.)
3. Consonance – is the repetition of consonant sounds within and at the end of the words.
Ex: Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door.
_ E.A. Poe, from the The Raven
(Bold letter t in the words late, visitor, entreating, entrance, and at is a consonant
sound.)
4. Repetition – repetition of any words, phrases, or lines in a poem.
Ex: To the swinging and the ringing of the bells, bells, bells-
(The word bells is repeated three times in the line of a poem.)
5. Rhyme – is the repetition of the same or similar sounding words, occurring usually at the
end of lines in poems or songs.
a. External or End rhyme – occurs when two words at the end of lines rhyme
Ex: “I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as tree.” (see - tree) – end rhyme
b. Internal rhyme – rhyming of words within the line of poetry
Ex: “the crows in bows throws endless brawls” – internal rhyme
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I
Pondered weak and weary (dreary – weary) – internal rhyme

ACTIVITY 1. Identify the sound devices in the following sentences and lines of poetry.
1. The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew
The furrow followed free
2. “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life”
3. “I balked when I saw the tall cop in the hall,
I knew he was looking for you.”
4. “Slippery, smooth silked slipped through Sarah’s little finger”
5. Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout
Would not take the garbage out.
6. The woods are lovely, dark and deep
 But I have promises to keep
7. “A boat wrote a quote and floated over a moat”
8. Come hither! come hither! My daughter,
And do not trembled so
9. “And swallow circling with their shimmering sound
10. “Hear the mellow wedding bells” by Edgar Allan Poe
ACTIVITY 2. Copy the rhyming words in the following lines of poetry and tell if it is end
rhyme or internal rhyme. Write your answer on your answer sheet.
1. His love so deep, so wide,
He could not turn aside.
2. The snowflakes are dancing, floating, and falling
3. I lost my dog in the midst of a fog
He found his way home, he doesn’t like to roam
4. Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the middle of the night.
5. I went to town to buy a gown,
I took the car and it wasn’t far.