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Week 5, Term 2, Grade 8, Literary Devices

The document provides an overview of literary and poetic devices for Grade VIII students, focusing on assonance, alliteration, consonance, and enjambment. It defines each device, provides examples from literature, and explains their usage in poetry and prose. The content is structured as a teacher's note for instructional purposes in the classroom.

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Week 5, Term 2, Grade 8, Literary Devices

The document provides an overview of literary and poetic devices for Grade VIII students, focusing on assonance, alliteration, consonance, and enjambment. It defines each device, provides examples from literature, and explains their usage in poetry and prose. The content is structured as a teacher's note for instructional purposes in the classroom.

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Subject: English

Topic: Literary/Poetic Devices


(Teacher’s note)

Grade: VIII Date: _________ Week 5 Term: II

Assonance Alliteration

 Assonance refers to the use of similar  Alliteration refers to the use of words with
sounding syllable or vowel sounds in a similar phonetic sounds, including
sentence. consonant sounds and, according to some,
even vowel sounds in a sentence.

 The words with the similar syllable or  The words containing similar sounds are
vowel sounds need not necessarily be placed close together in the sentence.
placed together. They can be spread
across the sentence.

 For example:  For example:


 They seemed to like the green  Peter Piper picked a peck
peas salad. of pickled papers.

Examples of Assonance in Literature


Example 1:

“Tyger, tyger, burning bright


In the forests of the night,” (‘The Tyger’ by William Blake)

In the above example, you can see the use of the repetition of the ‘i’ sound in the words tyger, tyger, bright
and night, which is an example of how assonance can be applied.

Example 2:

William Wordsworth, in his poem, ‘Daffodils’, applies assonance when he says he saw, “A host, of golden
daffodils”. The words host and golden have a similar ‘o’ sound, which is an example of assonance.
Example 3:

“A lanky, six-foot, pale boy with an active Adam’s apple …” (‘Lolita’ by Vladimir Nabokov)

In the above example, the words active, Adam’s and apple, all seem to begin with the same vowel ‘a’ and so
can be considered as an example of assonance.
Alliteration is a type of figurative language that relies on repetition of stressed initial sounds. Unlike rhyming,
which typically occurs at the end of words, alliteration happens at the beginning of words that are next to
each other, or nearby. Outside of poetry, alliteration is common in names, such as Tweedledum and
Tweedledee or Bob the Builder, and alliterative phrases, like kitty-corner.

What Is Alliteration?

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that relies on repetition of stressed initial sounds. Unlike rhyming,
which typically occurs at the end of words, alliteration happens at the beginning of words that are next to
each other, or nearby. Outside of poetry, alliteration is common in names, such as Tweedledum and
Tweedledee or Bob the Builder, and alliterative phrases, like kitty-corner.
An Example of Alliteration

“Lo! the Spear-Danes’ glory through splendid achievements


The folk-kings’ former fame we have heard of,
How princes displayed then their prowess-in-battle.
Oft Scyld the Scefing from scathers in numbers
From many a people their mead-benches tore.”
—Beowulf (translated from the Heyne-Socin text by Lesslie Hall)

What Is Consonance?

Consonance is a poetic device involving the repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the end of stressed
syllables and without repetition of vowels. Consonance is a little more flexible than alliteration, since the
repeated sounds can be found anywhere in a word, not necessarily at the very beginning.

An Example of Consonance

“When you are old and gray and full of sleep


And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.”
—“When You Are Old” by W. B. Yeats
What is Enjambment?

Enjambment is continuing a line after the line breaks. Whereas many poems end lines with the natural pause
at the end of a phrase or with punctuation as end-stopped lines, enjambment ends a line in the middle of a
phrase, allowing it to continue onto the next line as an enjambed line.
Example 1

We were running

to find what had happened

beyond the hills.

If written as a sentence (We were running to find what had happened beyond the hills) it is clear that this
phrase has no punctuation until the end. In the poem, each line is enjambed until the period at the end of the
third line.

Example 2

The sun hovered above

the horizon, suspended between

night and day.

This example is similar: the first and second lines are enjambed, whereas the third is end-stopped.

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