Analyzing sound devices (onomatopoeia,

alliteration, assonance, personification,

irony and hyperbole) in a text heard
Prepared by:
MARY ANN DV. CERDA
Spelling time!
1. Metaphor
2. hyperbole
3. Opposite
4. simile
5. Irony
6. alliteration
7. Personification
8. likeness
9. Exaggerate
10.Onomatopoeia
Answer the following questions about the poem.

 Where could be the setting of this poem ? Give your reasons.

 This poem tells of the stages in the life of a person . To what stage
of one’s life could the first stanza refer?
 During the early years of one’s life, when do the bells first ring
happily?
 On what other occasions in life do bells ring?
 Imitate and describe the ringing of the bells during the occasions?
 In one of the four stanzas of this poem or stages of life, a sad
ringing of the bells can happen. What could this ringing mean?
 Figures of Speech
1.Personification - a figure of speech that
gives human characteristics to non-human
things.
Example:” The sky is crying again.”
“I hear the leaves whistling every
time there’s a wind.”
2. Simile - comparison of two unlike
objects with the use of like or as….

Examples: skin as smooth as silk

Face as pretty as angel
She is like a flower in the
garden.
3. Methapor - comparisons without the
use of like or as.
Ex: ….the eyes are shining
……the ocean is a mirror
…….the clouds are wild beast
4.Irony - is a figure of speech that
signifies the opposite of what is being
said.

Example: ”You will soon die a

thousand deaths.”
5. Hyperbole - is used to exaggerate a
statement to emphasize.
Example: “Please ,I’m so hungry that I
could eat a horse.”
The waves were mountain high
during the storm.
6. Alliteration - the repetition of initial
consonant sounds in consecutive words.

Examples: The ladies dear diary was

lost in the rain.
It is growing greedily too.
7.Onomatopoeia - a figure of speech
using words that imitate sounds such as
hum, yelp, bleat, grunt, snort and buzz.
Examples: It cracked ,growled ,roared
and howled like noises in a swoon.
 Group I
 Pick out the alliteration in each sentences and be able to give their meanings:
 1.A fickle finger of fate happens unexpectedly.
 2.She seashells by the seashore.
 3.The top ten famous artist met at the press conference last week.

 Group II
 Pick out the Onomatopoeia in each sentences and be able to give their meanings
by action:
 1.The wings flapped and flapped.
 2.The clock ticked and ticked.
 3.The race cars zoomed off.
 Tell what figure of speech is used in each of the
following sentences.
1. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a
woodchuck would chuck wood?
2. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper.
3. She heard bees buzzing and thought they would
bit her.
4. The light of a fire is a sight.
5. Sizzle! Sizzle! The water sizzles above the fire.
Answer Key:
1.Assonance
2.Alliteration
3.Personification
4.Assonance
5.Onomatopoeia