Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Bureau of Secondary Education
Region I
Division of Ilocos Sur

Supplementary Learning Module for

Junior/Senior High School Learners

Grade Level: 9
Strand :( for JHS)
Subject: ENGLISH
Semester: (for JHS only)

Learning Competencies:
(EN9LT-Ie-2.2.2: Explain the literary devices used.

Prepared by:

MARICEL R. RAFAL

Teacher I

Cabittaogan National High School

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 SOUND DEVICES IN POETRY

The learning module is about sound devices in poetry. Sound devices are
resources used by poets to convey and reinforce the meaning or experience of
poetry through the skillful use of sound. After all, poets are trying to use a
concentrated blend of sound and imaginary to create an emotional response. The
words and their order should evoke images, and the words themselves have
sounds, which can reinforce or otherwise clarify those images. All in all, the poet is
trying to get you, the reader, to sense a particular thing, and the use of sound
devices are some of the poet’s tool. There are few different types of sound
devices including alliteration, rhymes, assonance, and consonance. This module
will give you a clearer understanding with the use of the sound devices in poetry
such as rhymes, alliteration, assonance, and consonance.

FOR THE FACILITATOR

This gives an instruction to the facilitator to orient the learners and support the parents,
elder sibling etc. of the learners on how to use the module. Furthermore, this also
instructs the facilitator to remind the learners to use separate sheets in answering the pre-
test, self- check exercises and post-test.

FOR THE LEARNER

This communicates directly to the learners and hence, must be interactive. This
contains instructions on how to use the module. The structure and the procedure of
working through the module are explained here. This also gives an overview of the content
of the module. If standard symbols are used to represent some parts of the module such as
the objectives, input, practice task and the like they are defined and explained in this portion.

WHAT I NEED TO KNOW

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1. Analyze sound devices in poetry.
2. Identify sound devices in poetry.

WHAT I KNOW

Direction: Read and understand carefully the questions and write your answer on a
separate sheet of paper.

1. Resources used by poets to reinforce the meaning and experience of a

poem.
a. Sound devices
b. Poetry
c. Consonance

2. We call this when the ending sounds are repeated.

a. Alliteration
b. Assonance
c. Rhyme

3. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of the words.

a. Alliteration
b. Rhyme
c. Sound device

4. The repetition of vowel sounds within the words.

a. Rhymes
b. Assonance
c. Poetry

5. The repetition of consonant sounds within at the end of the words.

a. Consonance
b. Assonance
c. Alliteration

6. ‘’ I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree. ‘’
What is the end rhyme?
a. Never- a
b. See- tree

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7. Which of the following is an example of alliteration

a. Along the window sill, the lipstick stab
Glittered in their steel shells.
b. Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door.

c. Doubting, drearing dreams no mortal

Enter dared to dream before.

8. ‘’Try to light the fire” is an example of what sound device?

a. Rhyme
b. Assonance
c. Alliteration

9. The author of ‘’Hear the mellow wedding bells”.

a. William Shakespeare
b. Alfred Lord Tennyson
c. Edgar Allan Poe

10. "Clooney the Clown" by Shel Silverstein is an example of:

a. Allitearion
b. Consonance
c. Assonance

11. Are words that sound similar to each other when you say or hear them.
Rhymes often are pleasant to hear and sound like music when we say
them.
a. Rhyme
b. Sound device
c. Assonance

12. Literary techniques not exclusively limited to poetry. And used by good
writers in all professions, from novelists, to journalists, to advertisers.
a. Poem
b. Poetic devices
c. Rhythm

13. It often works with assonance and consonance to make phonetically

pleasing arrangements.
a. Assonance
b. Consonance

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14. The arrangement of words creates an audible pattern or beat when read
out loud.
a. Rhythm
b. Sound devices
c. Poetry

15. “Hickory, dickory, dock,

The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck two
And down he flew
Hickory, dickory, dock.”
What kind of sound device?
a. Assonance
b. Rhyme
c. alliteration

LESSON PROPER

REVIEW

Sound Devices are resources used by poets to reinforce the meaning

and experience of a poem.

Examples are the following: Rhymes, Assonance, Alliteration, and

Consonance.

WHAT’S NEW?
Activity 1: What kind of sound device in poetry are the following. Choose
whether Rhyme, Alliteration, Assonance or Consonance. Write your answer
before the number.

_______________ 1. The frog frolicked frivolously on the forest floor.

Little skinny shoulder blades sticking through your clothes
…struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet.

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_______________ 2. Hear the mellow wedding bells.

_______________ 3. He fumbles at your spirit

As players at the keys
Before they drop full music on;
He stuns you by degrees.

_______________ 4. “The crows in boughs throws endless brawls”.

_______________ 5. He saw the cost and hauled off.

Will she read these cheap leaflets.

The snow in the rose garden groaned.

Lesson 1
RHYMES

Remember that rhyme is part of what we mean when

we say poetry is musical. When the ending sounds of words are
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repeated, we call it rhyme. Rhyming words do not appear only
at the end of the lines (end rhyme) in poems, but they may
appear within the line (internal rhyme).
End rhyme. When a poem has lines that end
with the same sound.
Internal rhyme. When a line of poetry has two of
the same sound within the line.

Example: “I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.” {see-tree} – end
rhyme

“the crows in boughs throws endless

brawls” – internal rhyme

Some poems rhyme and others don’t. What is

sure, is each poem captures moments in time,
feeling, thoughts, and experiences.

Example of internal rhyme:

The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,

Weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of
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Forgotten lore-
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there
Came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my
 Example of end rhyme:

The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I cannot travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.

WHAT’S MORE?

ACTIVITY 1

Directions: Read the two poems once more and spot the words that rhyme in
internal and end. Make a list of these rhyming words and determine which are
examples of internal and end rhyme. Copy the table as shown below, and fill it out
with the appropriate entries.

Internal Rhyme in The Raven End Rhyme in The Road Not Taken

ASSESSMENT 1

Direction: Circle the letter of the correct answer.

1. The ending sounds of words are repeated.

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 a. End rhyme
b. Internal rhyme
c. Rhymes

2. It has two the same sound within the line.

a. Rhymes
b. Internal rhymes
c. End rhymes

3. One of two or more words or phrases that end in the same sounds.
a. Alliteration
b. Assonance
c. Rhymes

4. Each poem captures moments in time, feeling, thoughts, and ________.

a. Experiences
b. Emotions
c. Frustrations

5. The author of The Road Not Taken.

a. William Shakespeare
b. Robert Frost
c. Edgar Allan Poe

6. The author of The Raven.

a. Robert Frost
b. Alanis Morrissette
c. Edgar Allan Poe

7. Fill in the blanks: Two roads diverged in a yellow _________.

a. Wood
b. Flower
c. Leaves

8. Once upon a _______ dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.

a. Morning
b. Midnight
c. Dawn

9. And be one _________, long I stood.

a. Carpenter
b. Call center
c. Traveler
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Forgotten lore-
a. Volume
b. Mass
c. Density

Lesson 2 Alliteration, Assonance, and Consonance

Other interesting features of poem that make it musical is the presence of

sound devices like alliteration, assonance, and consonance.
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Alliteration- is the repitition of consonant sounds at the beginning of the

words. Or the occurrence of the same letter or the sound at the beginning of
adjacent or closely connected words.

Alliteration is the repetition of the initial consonant sound in words. An

easier (though less exact) way to say this is that alliteration is when the first sounds
in words repeat. Alliteration often works with assonance and consonance to make
phonetically pleasing arrangements.

In literature, alliteration is the conspicuous repitition of identical initial

consonant sounds in successive or closely associated syllables within a group of
words, even those spelled diffrently. As a method of linking words for effect,
alliteration is also called head rhyme or initial rhyme.

Here are few examples of alliteration:

 She sells sea shells by the sea shore.

 How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck
wood?
 Fair is foul, and foul is fair: hover through the fog and filthy air.
 Doubting, drearing dreams no mortal
Enter dared to dream before. – Edgar Allan Poe, from The Raven

Assonance- is the repitition of vowel sounds within words. It is also a figurative term used
to refer to the repitition of a vowel sound in a line of text or poetry.

Here are few examples of assonance:

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  The cat ran after the alligator who was trying to assist an alarmed drowing
amadillo to get across the river.
 Along the window sill, the lipstick stabs
Glittered in their steel shells. – Rita Dove, from Adolescence III
 “Hear the mellow wedding bell” – Edgar Allan Poe
 “I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless.”- “With Love”by
Thin Lizzy

Consonance- is the repitition of consonant sounds within and at the end of the words or
the repetition of consonant sounds in the middle, end, or beginning of successive words.

- Also known as near rhyme, off rhyme, or slant rhyme, consonance is the
repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or at the end of words. Using
consonance is a sophisticated poetic technique that can create subtle yet
beautiful lyrics or lines of poetry.
- Is a stylistic literary device identified by the repitition of identical or similar
consonants in neighbouring words whose vowel sounds are different.
Consonance maybe regarded as the counterpart to the vowel- sound repitition
known as assonance.

Here are few examples of consonance:

 Some late visitor entreating entrance at

My chamber door – E.A. Poe, from The Raven
 Her finger hungered for a ring.
 The satin mittens were ancient.

Though the first of the above examples is also an example of personification, we are
interested in the repetition of the “nger” and “ng” sounds. If nobody is around you right
now, say out loud, “hungry and angry.” Notice how similar the words sound? What you
are hearing is consonance, or the repetition of the “ngry” consonant sounds.

WHAT’S MORE?

ACTIVITY 2

Direction: Tell whether if the sentence is Alliteration, Assonance, or Consonance.

Write only the number of your answer inside the box.

ALLITERATION ASSONANCE CONSONANCE

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 1. Jakia jumped in the jar of jelly.
2. The snow in the rose garden groaned.
3. The grass grew green in the graveyard.
4. “Try to light the fire”
5. You could paddle through the spittle in the bottle.
6. The frog frolicked frivolously on the forest floor.
7. Hear the mellow wedding bells
8. He stuns you by degrees
9. Little skinny shoulder blades sticking through your clothes.
10. As players at the keys.

ASSESSMENT 2

Direction: Circle the letter of the correct answer.

1. The repetition of the consonant sounds at the beginning of the word.
a. Alliteration
b. Rhymes
c. Assonance
2. The repetition of vowel sounds within words.
a. Rhymes
b. Alliteration
c. Assonance
3. Also known as near rhyme, off rhyme, or slant rhyme, consonance is the
repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or at the end of words.
a. Alliteration
b. Consonance
c. Rhymes
4. Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door. What example
of sound device?
a. Consonance
b. Alliteration
c. Assonance
5. She sells sea a shell by the sea shore is an example of what sound
device?
a. Rhymes

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c. Assonance
6. The satin mittens were ancient is an example of what sound device?
a. Consonance
b. Rhymes
c. Assonance
7. Often works with assonance and consonance to make phonetically
pleasing arrangements.
a. Consonance
b. Alliteration
c. Rhymes
8. Clap your hands and stamp your feet are an example of ______.
a. Rhymes
b. Alliteration
c. Assonance
9. It is also a figurative term used to refer to the repetition of a vowel sound in
a line of text or poetry.
a. Assonance
b. Literature
c. Grammar
10. It is meant to be more than a tongue twister.
a. Assonance
b. Alliteration
c. consonance

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WHAT I HAVE LEARNED

Sound devices- are resources used by poets to convey and reinforce the meaning or
experience of poetry through the skilful use of sound. After all, poets are trying to use a
concentrated blend of sound and imaginary to create and emotional response.
Poetry- literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and
ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of
literarture.
Rhymes- correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially
when these are used at the ends of line of poetry.

End rhyme- When a poem has lines that end with the same sound.

Internal rhyme- When a line of poetry has two of the same sound within the line.

Alliteration- is a term to describe a literary device in which series of words begin with
the same consonant sound.
Assonance- is the repitition of vowel sounds within words.
Consonance- is the repitition of consonant sounds within and at the end of the words or
the repetition of consonant sounds in the middle, end, or beginning of successive12 words.
 WHAT I CAN DO

Direction: Think 5 examples each of the sound devices in poetry.

Rhymes Alliteration Assonance Consonance

1. 1. 1. 1.

2. 2. 2. 2.

3. 3. 3. 3.

4. 4. 4. 4.

5. 5. 5. 5.

ASSESSMENT

Direction: Circle the letter of the correct answer.

1. Which of the following is an example of alliteration?

a. struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet
b. peter piper pick a peck of pickled pepper
c. the crumbling thunder of seas
2. “Strips of tinfoil winking like people”, is what example of sound device?
a. Alliteration
b. Assonance
c. Rhyme
3. Is a stylistic literary device identified by the repitition of identical or similar consonants in
neighbouring words whose vowel sounds are different.
a. Consonance
b. Sound device
c. Poetry
4. Are resources used by poets to convey and reinforce the meaning or experience of poetry
through the skillful use of sound?
a. Poetry
b. Sound devices

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5. Which of the following is an example of rhymes?
a. Hear the mellow wedding bells
b. True friends are by your side, through it all. True friends are there, to catch you when
you fall.
c. He fumbles at your spirit
6. Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these
are used at the ends of line of poetry.
a. Assonance
b. Consonance
c. rhymes

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES

ANSWER KEY
What I know:

1. a 6. b 11. a

2. c 7. c 12. b

3. a 8. b 13. c

4. b 9. c 14. a

5. a 10. a 15. b

What’s New: What’s More:

Activity 1: Activity 1:

1. alliteration End Rhyme Internal Rhyme

2. assonance - wood - dreary - rapping

3. consonance - stood - weary -lore

4. rhyme - could - napping -door

5. assonance - tapping -more

Assessment 1: Activity 2:

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1. a 6. C Alliteration Assonance Consonance

2. b 7. A 1,3,6,9 2,4,7 5,8,10

3. c 8. b

4. a 9. c

5. b 10. a

Assessment 2: What I can do:

1. a 6. A - answers may depend on the students.

2. c 7. b

3. b 8. c

4. a 9. a

5. b 10. b

Assessment: Post- test

1. a 6. c

2. b

3. a

4. b

5. c

REFERENCES

Includes all third party materials or sources of information used in developing the module
following the Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS).

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