Sound Effects and Meaning

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Sound Effects and Meaning

• Reading Poetry Part I

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Rhyme

• Rhyme the ____________ of the _________ of a
  ____________ vowel and any sounds that follow it
  within a word (nail and whale, material and
  cereal, icicle and bicycle)
• We looked! Then we saw him
• Step in on the mat!
• We looked! And we saw him!
• The Cat in the Hat!

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Rhyme Scheme

• ______________________________________________(usu
  ally end rhyme)
• Letters of the ________ are used to represent new
  sounds

• The Germ 
• A mighty creature is the germ, A Though
  smaller than the pachyderm. AHis customary
  dwelling place BIs deep within the human race.
  BHis childish pride he often pleases CBy giving
  people strange diseases. CDo you, my poppet,
  feel infirm? AYou probably contain a germ.
  AOgden Nash

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from Annabel Lee

• It was many and many a year ago,          In
  a kingdom by the sea,
• That a maiden there lived whom you may know
           By the name of Annabel Lee And
  this maiden she lived with no other thought
           Than to love and be loved by me.
• -Edgar Allan Poe

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Approximate Rhyme

• Also called ___________, off rhymes,
  _____________, near rhymes, imperfect rhymes
• Some sounds are repeated, but the words are
  ________________.
• hollow and mellow
• moon and morn

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End Rhyme

• A word at the _______ of one line __________ with
  a word at the end of another line
• Whose woods these are I think I know.His house
  is in the village, thoughHe will not see me
  stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with
  snow.

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____________ Rhyme

• A word ___________ a line rhymes with another
  word on the same line
• The Boa Constrictor Song I'm being
  swallered by a Boa Constrictor a Boa
  Constrictor, a Boa Constrictor I'm being
  swallered by a Boa Constrictor and I don't -
  like snakes - one bit! Oh no, he swallered my
  toe. Oh gee, he swallered my knee. Oh
  fiddle, he swallered my middle. Oh what a
  pest, he swallered my chest. Oh heck, he
  swallered my neck. Oh, dread, he swallered my
  - (BURP)

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Repetition

• The ______________ ______of a word, phrase,
  stanza form, or effect in any form of literature.
  
• Repetition may _________ _________, suggest
  order, or add special meaning or ____________ to
  a piece of literature.

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Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

• It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by
  the sea,That a maiden there lived whom you may
  knowBy the name of ANNABEL LEEAnd this maiden
  she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and
  be loved by me.I was a child and she was a
  child,In this kingdom by the seaBut we loved
  with a love that was more than love-I and my
  Annabel LeeWith a love that the winged seraphs
  of heavenCoveted her and me.And this was the
  reason that, long ago,In this kingdom by the
  sea,A wind blew out of a cloud, chillingMy
  beautiful Annabel LeeSo that her highborn
  kinsman cameAnd bore her away from me,To shut
  her up in a sepulchreIn this kingdom by the
  sea.

• The angels, not half so happy in heaven,Went
  envying her and me-Yes!- that was the reason (as
  all men know,In this kingdom by the sea)That
  the wind came out of the cloud by night,Chilling
  and killing my Annabel Lee.But our love it was
  stronger by far than the loveOf those who were
  older than we-Of many far wiser than we-And
  neither the angels in heaven above,Nor the
  demons down under the sea,Can ever dissever my
  soul from the soulOf the beautiful Annabel
  Lee.For the moon never beams without bringing
  me dreamsOf the beautiful Annabel LeeAnd the
  stars never rise but I feel the bright eyesOf
  the beautiful Annabel LeeAnd so, all the
  night-tide, I lie down by the sideOf my darling-
  my darling- my life and my bride,In the
  sepulchre there by the sea,In her tomb by the
  sounding sea.

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Kinds of Stanzas

• __________ a two line stanza
• __________ a three line stanza
• __________ a four line stanza
• __________ a five line stanza
• __________ a six line stanza
• __________ a seven line stanza
• __________ an eight line stanza

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A Red, Red Roseby Robert Burns

• O, my luv is like a red, red rose,    That's
  newly sprung in June.O my luv is like the
  melodie,    That's sweetly played in tune.
• As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,    So deep in
  luv am I,And I will luv thee still, my dear,   
  Till a' the seas gang dry.
• Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,    And the
  rocks melt wi' the sun!And I will luv thee
  still, my dear,    While the sand o' life shall
  run.
• And fare thee well, my only luv,    And fare
  thee well awhile!And I will come again, my
  luv,    Though it were ten thousand mile!

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Other Sound Effects in Poetry

• __________________ the use of words to mimic
  sounds
• __________________ the repetition of the
  initial consonant sound
• __________________ the repetition of consonant
  sounds in neighboring words. (Not just at the
  beginning.)
• ________________ the repetition of vowel sounds

• Pop, bang, crash, buzz, oink, moo
• The silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple
  curtain (The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe)
• The silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple
  curtain (The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe)
• Slow the low gradual moan came in the snowing.
• John Masefield

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Metaphors

• When you read poetry, you will find some
  metaphors that are direct and some that are
  implied.
• Direct metaphors compare two things by
  ___________ ___________ that one thing is another
  
• All the worlds a stage,
• And all the men and women merely players.
• - William Shakespeare

• Implied Metaphors do not give the ___________
  directly. They use words that __________________
  of the comparison.
• Hope is the thing with feathers
• That perches in the soul
• And sings the tune without the words
• And never stops at all
• -Emily Dickinson

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Extended Metaphors

• An ________________ metaphor is a comparison
  developed over ___________________ of a poem.

• The Road Not Taken
• Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I
  could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I
  stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo
  where it bent in the undergrowth.Then took the
  other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the
  better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted
  wearThough as for that the passing thereHad
  worn them really about the same.And both that
  morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden
  black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet
  knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I
  should ever come back.I shall be telling this
  with a sighSomewhere ages and ages henceTwo
  roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one
  less traveled by,And that has made all the
  difference.
• --Robert Frost

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Read the Following Poems

• Robert Frost
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
• Fire and Ice
• Emily Dickinson
• Hope is the Thing With Feathers

• Rhyme Scheme
• Type of stanza
• Repetition, Alliteration, Assonance, etc.
• Figures of Speech Similes, Metaphors,
  Personification, etc.
• Meaning