Sound Devices
Onomatopoeia
Repetition
End Rhyme
Internal Rhyme
Consonance
Alliteration
Example from Poem 1
Example from Poem 2
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POEM 1: Summer by Walter Dean
Myers
POEM 2: Cynthia in the Snow by
Gewndolyn Brooks
I like hot days, hot days
Sweat is what you get days
Bug buzz-buzzin’ from cousin to cousin
Juices dripping
Running and ripping
Catch the one you love days
It SUSHES.
It hushes
The loudness of the road.
It flitter-twitters,
And laughs away from me.
It laughs a lovely whiteness,
And whitely whirs away,
To be
Some otherwhere,
Still white as milk or shirts.
So beautiful it hurts.
Birds peeping
Old men sleeping
Lazy days, daisies lay
Beaming and dreaming
Of hot days, hot days
Sweat is what you got days
POEM 1: Summer by Walter Dean
Myers
POEM 2: Cynthia in the Snow by
Gewndolyn Brooks
I like hot days, hot days
Sweat is what you get days
Bug buzz-buzzin’ from cousin to cousin
Juices dripping
Running and ripping
Catch the one you love days
It SUSHES.
It hushes
The loudness of the road.
It flitter-twitters,
And laughs away from me.
It laughs a lovely whiteness,
And whitely whirs away,
To be
Some otherwhere,
Still white as milk or shirts.
So beautiful it hurts.
Birds peeping
Old men sleeping
Lazy days, daisies lay
Beaming and dreaming
Of hot days, hot days
Sweat is what you got days
POEM 1: Summer by Walter Dean
Myers
POEM 2: Cynthia in the Snow by
Gewndolyn Brooks
I like hot days, hot days
Sweat is what you get days
Bug buzz-buzzin’ from cousin to cousin
Juices dripping
Running and ripping
Catch the one you love days
It SUSHES.
It hushes
The loudness of the road.
It flitter-twitters,
And laughs away from me.
It laughs a lovely whiteness,
And whitely whirs away,
To be
Some otherwhere,
Still white as milk or shirts.
So beautiful it hurts.
Birds peeping
Old men sleeping
Lazy days, daisies lay
Beaming and dreaming
Of hot days, hot days
Sweat is what you got days