A Poetry Handbook - Pages 29-34 Notes

More Devices of Sound

• There are other literary devices that can be used in order to hold the reader in your poetry
• Alliteration
• Repetition of a sound either at the beginning or within the word through a line or stanza.
• Assonance 
• Repetition of a vowel in words through a line or a verse.
• Gives the readers a sense of near-rhyme.
• Onomatopoeia
a word that also makes the sound of the word.
•  It also represents what it defines.
• In the Bells, it is mainly used in order to sustain the atmosphere and sound of the bells being run around you.
• There is also alignments of vowels that do not fall into a literary device for sound but make it clear that there is a change in tone and sound that is vital for the poem
• Don't always have to follow what the devices are because you can get another effect with something that has no name.
•  There are more literary devices of sound that can make tour poetry stick out to the reader but you can also use none of them and get similar effects. 
• You can mix them together to create endless possibilities for our poem.