You have learned about the following poetic devices and have examples of them in your poetry packet. As you continue to write your poem that began with imagery, include these other devices.
The Images:
Imagery
Simile or Metaphor
The Sounds:
Alliteration
Assonance or Consonnance
Onomatopoeia
Requirements:
- At least 20 lines
- No COPS errors
- Line breaks that make sense - your poem should look like and be written like a poem, not an essay with sentences.
- Thoughtful punctuation - throughout the lines and/or at the end of the lines
- Keep your five senses (especially sound) in mind as you craft your poem.
- Typed
- Due Thursday, January 26
Examples of Alliteration
- The wicked witch of the west
- Larry, like Laura, likes leaving late.
- Freezing frost in February
- Johnny jumped and jiggled.
WHAT IS CONSONANCE?
Consonance is often confused with alliteration, and understandably so. Consonance is similar to alliteration in the fact that it deals with the repetition of consonants. However, the repetition in consonance occurs with the inner consonant sounds, or those at the ends of words, rather than the consonants at the beginning of the words in a phrase.
Examples of Consonance
- He struck some good luck.
- Think tank
- Touch the peach on the beach.
- The big frog was on a log.
WHAT IS ASSONANCE?
Similar to both consonance and alliteration, assonance uses the repetition of a pattern of sound. In assonance, the repetition occurs with the vowels inside the words, rather than the consonants. It is used online shop to create internal rhyming within a phrase or sentence in a more subtle manner than with alliteration.
Examples of Assonance
- There was a rock in a box that was locked.
- The cat came back to attack the man.
- A white owl was flying high in the night.