Author’s Style: Word Choice
Background: Both poems and prose are enhanced by the use of sound devices, such as alliteration, assonance, and consonance. The use of sound devices may emphasize meaning, create a particular mood or express tone.
Task 1: For each of the following words, find a definition and write an example:
- Alliteration- It is the recurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Big Black Beetles bleed black blood.
- Assonance- repetition of a sound of a vowel. In poetry, no one knows what you will write, only you know.
- Consonance-an agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions
- Mood-a temporary state of mind or feeling
- Tone-the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.
Task 2: Find an example of assonance, alliteration, and consonance in “Writing on the Wall.” Then, explain how that sound device enhances the meaning and/or the tone in the text.
consonance-”Even Su Wu was detained among the barbarians,” because there is an agreement that Su Wu is considered a barbarian type person
Alliteration- “...to calm, to communicate, to commiserate, and to conserve.” It enhances the meaning of the text as she was talking about how we are conserving the poems and this gives you a better connection with the poems.
Assonance- “:to calm, to communicate, to commiserate, to conserve” This adds to the meaning of, the power of poetry.
*include an image that is related to your ideas somehow.
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