Group 5: Phonetics

(30 Questions)

 Function of Poetry – is to convey not only sounds, but meaning or experience through
sounds.
 Phonetic Intensives - a word, whose sound, to some degree, connects with its meaning.
 Euphony - the quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious
combination of sounds.
 Euphony is derived from the greek word “euphonos” that means sweet- voiced.
 Function of Euphony – The purpose of using euphony is to bring about peaceful and
pleasant feelings in a piece of literary work.
 Cacophony – is the use of a combination of words with loud, harsh sounds in reality as
well as literature.
 Cacophony – creates interesting poems, emotive prose and playful songs.
 Writers - use cacophony as a tool to describe a discordant situation using discordant
words.
 Poets – control both sound and meter in such a way as to emphasize words that are
important in meaning.
 Sound Devices – is elements of literature and poetry that emphasize sounds.
 Alliteration – It is the repetition of consonant sounds in consecutive or neighboring
words usually at the beginning of words.
 Assonance – is the repetition of the same or vowel sounds, especially in stressed
syllables.
 Assonance – differs from rhyme in that rhyme is a similarity of vowel and consonant.
 Rhyme – is the use of matching sounds in two or more words.
 Perfect Rhyme – is a final vowel and consonant must be the same, as they are in each of
the preceding examples.
 Imperfect Rhyme – occurs when the final consonant sounds in two words are the same
but vowel sounds are different.
 End Rhyme- occurs at the end of a line.
 Internal Rhyme – occurs within a line.
 Onomatopoeia – doesn’t only have to express the sound of animals but to express the
sounds and movements of actions.
 Consonance – is the repetition of the same consonant sound in neighboring words.
 Consonant Sound – is not just in the beginning but in the beginning and middle or in
the middle and middle or in the middle and end or in the beginning and middle and
middle and end.
Sound devices that emphasize sounds

 Alliteration
 Assonance
 Rhyme
 Onomatopoeia
 Consonance

Types of Rhyme

 Perfect Rhyme
 Imperfect Rhyme
 End Rhyme
 Internal Rhyme