A24-SoundElements - ELEMENTS OF SOUND Read the following...

ELEMENTS OF SOUND
Read the following lines of poetry. Identify any elements of sound that they contain along with
any figures of speech or other rhetorical devices. If you spot devices covered in earlier modules
or that you've learned in other grades (for example, parallelism), by all means mention these as
well as devices explicitly covered in this module.
a. Was Cleopatra gorgeous in a gown of gold?
b. O Blues! c. Mule-bray, pig grunt and bawdy cackles.
—Sylvia Plath
Onomatopoeia
d. he was hung in the river like a heart
—Margaret Atwood
Simile