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Analyzing Sound Devices in A Text Heard

The document analyzes and provides examples of several sound devices used in texts, including figures of speech like personification, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, and irony. It also discusses alliteration and assonance, defined as the repetition of vowel sounds. Examples are given for each device to illustrate how they are used to emphasize meaning or create certain effects in writing.

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Analyzing Sound Devices in A Text Heard

The document analyzes and provides examples of several sound devices used in texts, including figures of speech like personification, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, and irony. It also discusses alliteration and assonance, defined as the repetition of vowel sounds. Examples are given for each device to illustrate how they are used to emphasize meaning or create certain effects in writing.

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Analyzing Sound Devices

in a text heard

Figure of Speech
Afigureof speechis a word or phrase
that has a meaning something different
than its literal meaning.
PERSONIFICATION
Personificationis giving human
qualities to non-living things or ideas.
Examples are:
The flowers nodded
Snowflakes danced
Thunder grumbled
Fog crept in
The wind howled
HYPERBOLE
Hyperboleuses exaggeration for
emphasis or effect. Examples are:
Ive told you a hundred times
It cost a billion dollars
I could do this forever
She is older than dirt
Everybody knows that
ONOMATOPOEIA
Onomatopoeiais a word that sounds
like what it is describing. Examples
are:
Whoosh
Splat
Buzz
Click
Oink
IRONY
Ironyis using words where the meaning is the
opposite of their usual meaning. Examples are:
After begging for a cat and finally getting one,
she found out she was allergic.
A traffic cop gets suspended for not paying his
parking tickets.
The Titanic was said to be unsinkable.
Dramatic irony is knowing the killer is hiding in
a closet in a scary movie.
Naming a Chihuahua Brutus
ALLITERATION
Alliterationisthe repetition of
beginning sounds. Examples are:
Sally sells seashells.
Walter wondered where Winnie was.
Blue baby bonnets
Nick needed notebooks.
Fred fried frogs.
ASSONANCE

Assonance-

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