Tag: assonance

Poetry week #003: How does that SOUND to you?

Jul 16, 2013

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by

Ace Baker

in fancy footwork, poetry, writing technique

Important tools in the toolkit of any poet are devices involving SOUND. There are many to choose from, but let’s focus on a few today. I’ll get some quick definitions out of the way, then demonstrate what I mean by them with a poem. Alliteration–repeating of beginning sounds: “buckets of baseballs; killer choir; ten…