Sound Devices & Figurative Language

She was a Phantom of Delight
Answer to the guide questions:
1.
a. Sound devices help the poet convey emotion by creating pleasant experience to the ear and by
emphasizing an idea.
b. Sound devices help convey meaning by strengthening or reinforcing the meaning of poetry. It helps
form visual images and highlights the tone of poetry.
2. The poets decide the types of sound device use depend on the idea to be emphasize, to the instinct and
to the emotion the poets feel while doing the poem.
3. Matrix - other examples of sound devices
Sound Devices Examples What purpose was in the poem

Alliteration Aiming aisle with the room light Dream of the poet and his wife
and airy when they begin to know each
other.
Assonance Her demure and puritanical looks Describing poets wife when they
influenced curiosity. first met.
Consonance He considered the captured Describing after they are married.
beauty, valuable booty.
Onomatopoeia KLANG! KLANG! KLANG! As the The sound that their wedding
church bell rang . ceremony started
Repetition Her eyes, her eyes make the stars The poet describing his wife
look like they’re shinning, her hair, beauty.
her hair, falls perfectly without her
trying
Sample lines that used the following sound devices
Alliteration
1. For transient sorrows, simple wiles
2. A Being breathing thoughtful breath
Assonance
1. A dancing Shape, an Image gay
2. A perfect woman, nobly planned
Consonance
1. A lovely Apparition, sent to be a moment’s ornament
Repetition
1.Sweet records, promises as sweet
Full Rhymes – 5 Pair of Full Rhymes
Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, like twilight’s too her dusky hair
But all things else about her drawn, from May-time and the cheerful dawn
A creature not to bright or good for human nature’s daily food
The reason firm , the temperature will, Endurance foresight strength and skill
And yet a Spirit still, and bright with something of angelic light.
“Love Poem Medley”
Figurative Language
Figure of Speech Lines Meaning

Cliché I heard that love is blind, so I write all my Love is said to be blind and the Braille
poems in Braille. raised lettering alphabet is a tool blind
people use to read.
Metaphor In fact, every time I try to write about love, my When he starts to write about love his
hands cramp, just to show me how painful love hands also starts to ache, maybe it is a
can be sign that he can’t get a “grip” on the
subject and this makes it harder each
time he tries
Simile Real love is kind of like a supermodel before Love is beautiful. But not in a
she airbrushed synthetically perfect way
Metaphor I love you the same way I learned how to ride a Rudy is no good and reckless at
bike: scared, but reckless, with no training biking, but he’s learning. This love may
wheels or elbow pads, so my scars can tell the sometimes leave scars upon your heart
story of how I fell for you. just like when we are learning on how
to ride a bike we got scars. He wears
these scars proudly because he is ready
to tell the stories of how he got the
scars or how he fall in love.
Personification I see your face in every cloud, your reflection in He truly love her that he personified her
every window. into the cloud and in the reflection of all
the window that he passes.
Simile If I was a love poet I’d write about how I melt in He fall in love so hard that can make
front of you like an ice sculpture him melt like the ice sculpture.
Hyperbole Whenever I see your name on the caller ID, my That his heart skips a beat.
heart plays hopscotch inside of my chest.
Apostrophe I whispered your name in the wind, hoping That the girl he was looking is no where
somehow, maybe some way, my voice would to find and the only thing he can do was
reach you. to whisper her name in the wind and to
hope that she can hear it.
Oxymoron I hold on a little too tight That he just don’t want to lose her.
Irony I’m not much a love poet He writes a love poem but always state
that he’s not much a love poet

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Answer to the guide questions:

3. Matrix - other examples of sound devices

Sound Devices Examples What purpose was in the poem

Sample lines that used the following sound devices

Figure of Speech Lines Meaning

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