Phonological Patterning

• Phonological patterning


  A set of phonological language features in written and spoken texts, with distinct effects on the text that vary depending on context

  ->expresses creativity

  ->persuasively captures and maintains the attention of an audience
• RACORA is the mnemonic used for Phonological Patterning

  • Rhythm
  • Alliteration
  • Consonance
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Rhyme
  • Assonance
• Alliteration


  The repetition of phonemes at the beginning of words in a phrase, clause or sentence
• Alliteration


  • pretty practical pants
• Assonance


  The repetition of vowel phonemes across phrases, clauses or sentences
• Assonance


  • how brown are the cows?
• Consonance


  The repetition of consonant phonemes, often at syllable-final boundaries
• Consonance


  • pitter patter want the little feet
• Onomatopoeia


  The process by which evocative words are created from the sounds they represent
• Onomatopoeia


  • buzz, whoosh, bang, squawk
• Rhythm


  Created when the intonation of a set of words is repeated across two or more phrases, clauses or sentences
• Rhythm


  • Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary. - Edgar Allen Poe
• Rhyme


  The repetition of similar phonemes at the ends of two or more words, entailing the direct manipulation of consonance and assonance in word-final syllables
• You can use an acronym such as 'RACORA' when recalling phonological patterns - Rhythm, Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Rhyme, Assonance