Sound Devices in "Respiration" by BlackStar HW

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Please copy excerpts from the song that show consonance and onamatapoeia.  Explain why each excerpt meets the criteria for that particular sound device.

 

Mr. L

[HAI LUN MEI]

ONOMATOPOEIA:

1.       The beast walk the beats, but the beats we be makin.

This sentence means Beats is the sound from when beast’ walking, so beats is onomatopoeia.

CONSONANCE:

1.       Taken them plunger, plunging to death that’s painted by the numbers.

2.       So keepin it real will make you casualty of abnormal normality

3.       Killers born naturally like , Mickey and Mallory.

When first time to see these words, I think they are similar, but they different. and they have correspondence of consonants.

[JIA HUANG WEI]

Consonance;Threw dirt on the casket ,the hurt ,i coundn't mask it.

                   You either make a way or stay sobbing, the Shiny Apple is bruised but sweet and if you choose to eat.

These two  excerpts meet the criteria for consonance because the consonant "t" is repeted at the end of stressed syllables.;casket ,hurt , it , sweet ,eat

Onamatapoeia;"We did umm ,two whole cars"

                       Yo..on The Amene 

umm..is a word that mimic sound. Im not sure if Yo..on does. 

[ZHAO FENG TUNG]

Consonance:

1)"Yo...on the amen, corner I stood lookin at my former hood 
    Felt the spirit in the wind, knew my friend was gone for good."

The sound of the stood, lookin, hood, and good, the sound look the same in the "ood" but they have different meaning to each other.

2)"Spotlight to savages, nasdaq averages "

The sound in this line is the "ages'' in both end of the word.

Onomatopoeia:

1)"With crime unapplied pressure, cats is playin god"

I think the cats is represent thief and the god represent the laws, and "cats is playin god" meaning the thief againsts the laws.

[YING ZHOU]

consonance:

1)So much on my mind that I can't recline

  Blastin holes in the night til she bled sunshine

2)Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening

  Sigh before we die like the last train leaving

3)This ain't no time where the usual is suitable

  Tonight alive, let's describe the inscrutable

4)The indisputable, we New York the narcotic

  Strength in metal and fiber optics

In these lines, Mos Def and Talib Kweli has used consonant sounds like 'ine' and 'tic'. 

onamatopoeia:

1）Hard knuckles on the second hands of workin class watches

2）Yo...on The Amen, Corner I stood lookin at my former hood

3）People was tusslin, arguin and bustlin

These words that imitates the sound it is describing.

[KAI CHEN]

Onomatopoeia: is bruised but sweet and if you choose to eat

                      You could lose your teeth, many crews retreat

the eat and retreat both have the eat on the vocabulary.

Consonance： Tonight alive, let's describe the inscrutable

                      The indisputable, we New York the narcotic

the inscrutable and indisputable both begin with "in", and end with "table".

[MARISOL GERMAN]

Consonance=The beats walk the beats ,but the beats we be making 

I think this is consonance because the sound of the beats repeated three times.

Onomatopoeia =yo......on The amen,corner I stood looking at my former hood. 

I think  this is an onomatopoeia because yo.. is describing him 

[MING SHI ZOU]

    Consonance:

1. So much on my mind I just can't recline

Blastin holes in the night til she bled sunshine

Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that shine

Breathe out, weed smoke retrace the skyline

 

2. Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening

Sigh before we die like the last train leaving

 

3. Yo...on the amen, corner I stood lookin at my former hood

Felt the spirit in the wind, knew my friend was gone for good

 

4.It's deep, I heard the city breathe in it's sleep

Of reality I touch, but for me it's hard to keep

In these lines has used consonant sounds like 'ine' 'ing',”ood” , and “eep”.

 

 

Onomatopoeia:

1. Heard the bass ride out like an ancient mating call.

2. The beast walk the beats, but the beats we be makin.

I think these words that is the voice of the animals

 

 

 

 

[YIWEN JIANG]

consonance :     "It's deep, I heard the city breathe in it's sleep

                         Of reality I touch, but for me it's hard to keep."

This sentence is recurrence of similar sounds of “eep”.

onomatopoeia :

     "Yo...on The Amen, Corner I stood lookin at my former hood."

The word "Yo...on" is imitates the sound it is describing emotional expression.

[JIA YIN HUANG]

Consonance:

 

1) I'm wrestlin with words and ideas
    My ears is picky, seekin what will transmit

 

2) The beast walk the beats, but the beats we be makin

 

3) Taken them plungers, plungin to death that's painted by the numbers

     with Krylon applied pressure, cats is playin God

 

Those lines are examples of consonance, they have some of word have the same first letter in the words.But they are not fully rhyme.

 

Onomatopoeia:

 

1) I can't take it y'all, I can feel the city breathin.

 

2) Taken them plungers, plungin to death that's painted by the
numbers

3)Hard to be a spiritual being when shit is shakin what you believe in.

 

Those lines are examples of onomatopoeia, those words are the imitation of a sound.

 

 

[KUNJUN JIANG]

Consonance:

 

1. Taken them plungers, plungin to death that's painted by the
numbers

The sound of these two word are similar, so I think it is a consonance.

 

Onamatapoeia:

1. Yo how the bass ride out like an ancient mating call

1. Yo...on The Amen, Corner I stood lookin at my former hood

"Yo" is a sound track, so it's a onamatapoeia.

 

 

[JUN HAO FENG]

Onomatopoeia:

      "My eagle talons STAY sharpened,  like city light stay throbbin"

           Throbbin is an example of onomatopoeia because it represent the sound of strong and constant beats, just like the heart of the city.

Consonance：

       "Threw dirt on the casket ,the hurt ,i coundn't mask it."

                This is a consonance because the “t” sound at the end of the word and they have different vowel sound before it.  Example:  dirt, and hurt, casket and mask it, 

Eye Rhyme:

         "Threw dirt on the casket ,the hurt ,i coundn't mask it."

               The letter t at the end of couldn't make me think that there would be a internal rhyme, but it sounds different than casket, hurt, and it.  

                        (NOT sure if this is the eye rhyme)

[PANG YEN WU]

Consonance:
So much on my mind that I can't recline 

Blastin holes in the night til she bled sunshine 
Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that shine 
Breathe out, weed smoke retrace the skyline 

in inhale weed those word are sound like but not look like

Onomatopoeia:And hell, waiting to exhale and make the bread leavened 

Veteran of a cold war it's chica-i-go for 

chica i go is a kind of sound creat by the poet.

[YUWEI LIU]

Consonance :  it's deep, I heard the city breathe in its sleep

                                Of reality I touch, but for me it's hard to keep   

                                Deep, i heard my man breathe in his sleep 

                                 Of reality i touch, but for me it's hard to keep

Because in this part they both has "eep" at the last word. 

Onomatopoeia : yo···on The Am  en, Corner I stood looking at my former hood. 

   

     I think YO···is mean a person, so i think it's onomatopoeia. 

[ZHI YI ZHANG]

  consonance

1)People was tusslin, arguin and bustlin
Gangstaz of Gotham hardcore hustlin

2)Blastin holes in the night til she bled sunshine

Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that shine
Breathe out, weed smoke retrace the skyline

all the underline words are using hte ine or ing to be consonance

 onamatapoeia

1)You on the wrong side of the track, lookin visibly shaken

2)Breathin in deep city breaths, sittin on shitty steps

underline words disribing the onamatapoeia

[XIN YANG]

    consonance

We stoop to new lows, hell froze the night the city slept
The beast crept through concrete jungles

  It has the repetition at the end but has no similar on vwels.

 

    onamatapoeia

With no conscience, back streets stay darkened
Where unbeliever hearts stay hardened
My eagle talons stay sharpened

     These worlds have similar sunds.

[CUI JIN LU]

 

Consonance:

 

It's deep, I heard the city breathe in it's  sleep

Of reality I touch, but for me it's hard to keep

 

I think this is consonance,because it has repetition of consonants at the ends of words,like "sleep"and "keep".

 

Onomatopoeia:

 

Yo...on The Amen, Corner I stood lookin at my former hood

 

I think this is onomatopoeia,because here is using the word "Yo..."  that imitate the sound they denote.

 

 

 

 

 

[SHANG CONG XU]

Consonance：
So some days I take the bus home,just to touch home
From the crib I spend months gone

No Onomatopoeia

[XIAOYAN ZHANG]

Mr.L

Consonance:

People was tusslin', arguin' and bustlin'

Gangstas of Gotham hardcore hustlin'

This ain't no time where the usual is suitable

Tonight alive, let's describe the inscrutable

My narrative, rose to explain this existence

Amidst the harbor lights which remain in the distance

So much on my mind that I cant recline

Blastin' holes in the night till she bled sunshine

Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that shine

Breathe out, weed smoke retrace the skyline

Consonance is the repetition of final consonant sounds in nearby words that do not fully rhyme. Such as recline and sunshine, they both end at "i" sound, or existence and distance, they both end at "ce" sound.

"Yeah,yeah, it was a whole car and shit..."

Taken them plungers, plungin' to death thats painted by the numbers

Yo...on the amen, corner I stood lookin' at my former hood

Tried to call, or at least beep the lord, but didn't have a touch-tone

Onomatopoeia is the creation or use of words that sound like the items or actions they name or refer to. Such as the word "yeah" it is a sound that we can not really describe it.

[BERRIN VAROL]

CONSONANCE 

''It's a paradox we call reality so keeping it real will make you casualty of abnormal normality.''

 - This excerpt meets the criteria for Consonance because the end of the words are repetition of each other.

''It's deep, I heard the city breathe in its sleep. Of reality I touch, but for me it's hard to keep.''

-This excerpt has 2 Consonance in it, and they both consonance because the end of the words are repetition of the other.

''My blood pressure boiled and rose, cause New York niggaz actin spoiled at shows, to the winners the spoils go.'' 

 -This excerpt is also a Consonance because of the same reason.

ONOMATOPOEIA 

''Skyscrapers is colossus, the cost of living is preposterous, stay alive, you play or die, no options.''

 -I think those sentences are onomatopoeia because the way how person syllables and  the way they say it change the meaning and the representation of the word.

[WEN BIN CHEN]

Consonance:

So much on my mind that i can't recline
Blastin holes in the night til she bled sunshine

Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that shine
Breathe out, weed smoke retrace the skyline

Heard the bass ride out like an ancient mating call
I can't take it y'all, i can feel the city breathin

Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening
Sigh before we die like the last train leaving

They used consonant sounds like " ine" and " ing"

 

Onomatopoeia =yo on the amen,corner I stood looking at my former hood.

They say yooooooo to some one so i think this is the onomatopoeia