Nothing Gold Can Stay

SOUND DEVICES
PARAPHRASING
“What’s That Rhyme?”
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1. Red was the perfect hue for her
evening dress.

a. style
b. color
2. The storm subsided over the
course of an afternoon, which
granted safety to those involved.

a. weakened
b. intensified
3. The smile I had anticipated on
my lover’s face was gold.

a. boring
b. precious
4. So she worries, I worry for her.

a. therefore
b. just as
5. The creation of Braille marked
the dawn of great, accessible
knowledge for the blind.
a. beginning
b. end
Nothing Gold Can Stay
ROBERT FROST
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
SOUND DEVICES
reinforce meaning or
experience of poetry through
the skillful use of sound
1. Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabelle Lee": "And so all
the night-tide, I lie down by the side of my
darling-my darling-my life and my bride"
2. William Blake's "Tyger": "Tyger, Tyger burning
bright in the forest of the night"
3. From William Wordsworth's "Daffodils": "A host
of golden daffodils"
4. From the movie My Fair Lady: "The rain in
Spain stays mainly on the plain."
Assonance
Assonance
the repetition of a vowel sound in
a line of text or poetry.
the words have to be close
enough together for the repetition
to be noticeable.
First and last
Odds and ends
Short and sweet
Struts and frets
- from Shakespeare’s Macbeth

Consonance
The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in
the yard
And made dust and dropped stove-
length sticks of wood,
Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze
drew across it.
- Robert Frost
Consonance
Consonance
 typically used to refer to the
repetition of ending sounds that are
consonants, but it can refer to
repetition of consonant sounds within
the word as well.
often, consonance is used to create a
rhyme or cadence.
“His soul swooned slowly as he
heard the snow falling faintly
through the universe and faintly
falling, like the descent of their
last end, upon all the living and
the dead.”

Alliteration
Alliteration
device in which a number of
words, having the same first
consonant sound, occur close
together in a series.
Machine noises—honk, beep, vroom, clang, zap,
boing
Animal names—cuckoo, chickadee
Impact sounds—boom, crash, whack, thump, bang
Sounds of the voice—shush, giggle, growl, whine,
murmur, blurt, whisper, hiss
Nature sounds—splash, drip, spray, whoosh, buzz,
rustle

Onomatopoeia
Too much horrified to speak,
They can only shriek, shriek,
Out of tune…
How they clang, and clash, and roar!
What a horror they outpour
- Edgar Allan Poe

Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia
refers to a word that phonetically
mimics or resembles the sound of
the thing it describes.
Let’s Try!
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
The Jingle Challenge
A short jingle, minimum of four lines, making use of
sound devices.

Criteria
Use of sound 20
devices 15
Effectiveness of 15
jingle 50 pts.
Creativity and
There’s a mining company at your place which
provides employment to the community. It is the sole
livelihood the people know. However, the government
wants it to be closed to give way to the conservation
of the environment.
The big question is: Would you take the company’s
side to continue mining and provide jobs as it poses
harm to the environment or would you support the
government’s aim to preserve the environment but
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