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The passage discusses different sound devices used in poetry such as rhyme, onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance, and consonance. It also provides examples for each and asks students to identify these devices in the poem 'The Seven Ages of Man'.

In the poem, examples of rhyme include 'nurse's arms' and 'school boy'. Examples of alliteration include 'full of strange oaths' and 'bearded like a pard'. The poem also contains assonance in words like 'lean and slippered pantaloons'.

The poet describes the first age as an 'infant, mewling and puking'. The second age is a 'whining school boy'. The third age is described as a 'lover, sighing like furnace'. Other ages include a soldier, justice, and old man in 'lean and slippered pantaloons'.

Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VII, Central Visayas
Division of Bohol

Grade 9-ENGLISH
First Quarter

ACTIVITY SHEET NO. 3

Activity Title : Identifying Sound Devices in Poetry


Learning Competency : Identify the literary devices used.
EN9LT-Ie-2.2.2
Learning Target : Identify sound devices from the lines of the poem.
Reference : A Journey through Anglo-American Literature, pp. 10-13
https://www.litchart.com
https://examples.yourdictionary.com
Concept Notes:

Poet uses words that suggest sounds at the same time describe actions being
made. The following are examples of sound devices used by poets.

1. RHYME is a musical device which the ending sounds of words are repeated.
Rhyming words do not appear only at the end of the lines(end rhymes) in poems,
but they may appear within the line(internal rhyme)
Examples:
a. End rhyme: Tyger, tiger burning bright
In the forest of the night.
b. Internal rhyme: I drove myself to the lake
And dove into the water

2. ONOMATOPOEIA is a sound device used by poets to suggest actions,


movements and meanings.
Examples: a. The hissing of the snake made me shoo it away.
b. The best part about music class is that you can bang on the
drum.

3. ALLITERATION is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of


the words.
Examples:
a. doubting, drearing dreams no mortal enter dared to dream before
b. The big, bad, bear scared all the baby bunnies by the bushes.

4. ASSONANCE is the repetition of vowel sounds within words.


Examples:
a. Along the window sill, the lipstick stabs glittered in their steel shells.
b. Do not go gentle into the good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of
the day; …

5. CONSONANCE is the repetition of consonant sounds within and at the end


of the words.
Examples: a. Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door.
b. Miko likes his new bike.

Task: Read the poem “The Seven Ages of Man” and look out for words or lines that
sound like they are examples of rhyme, onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance,
consonance. List them all and chart them on the space provided.

THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN


(from: “AS YOU LIKE IT” ) by: William Shakespeare

All the world’s a stage,


And all the men and women are merely players;
They have their exits and entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts

His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,


Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms;
And then the whining school boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,

Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad


Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like a pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation

Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,


In fair round belly with good caper lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of white saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts

Into the lean and slippered pantaloons,


With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes

And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,


That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
RHYME ONOMATOPOEIA ALLITERATION ASSONANCE CONSONANCE

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