Assonance and Alliteration Flashcard

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What is alliteration?

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the repetition of the beginning sounds of nearby words

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What is assonance?

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the repetition of vowel sounds inside of nearby words

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Which detail from the following excerpt of the poem "Casey at the Bat" contains alliteration? Then from five thousand throats and more there rose a lusty yell It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell; It pounded on the mountain and recoiled upon the flat, For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat.

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"Then from five thousand throats"

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Which detail from the following excerpt of the poem "Casey at the Bat" contains assonance? Then from five thousand throats and more there rose a lusty yell It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell; It pounded on the mountain and recoiled upon the flat, For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat. Options: "five thousand throats", "It rumbled through the valley", "It pounded on the mountain", "there rose a lusty yell"

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"It pounded on the mountain"

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Which detail from the following excerpt of the poem "Little Birds" contains alliteration? Little Birds are feeding Justices with jam, Rich in frizzled ham: Rich, I say, in oysters Haunting shady cloisters - That is what I am.

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"Justices with jam"

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Which detail from the lyrics contains assonance? Do you wish you could jump With a basketball and land a slam dunk? Well, if you can't on Earth, try it on the moon, There's less gravity—you jump higher like ZOOM! But on Jupiter, even LeBron Couldn't dunk 'cause the gravity there is too strong. Jupiter is heavier—it has more mass, Mass is the amount of matter that something has. Options: "Well, if you can't on Earth,", "There's less gravity—you jump higher", "try it on the moon,", "With a basketball and land a slam dunk."

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"With a basketball and land a slam dunk."

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How could the sentence "I accidentally left my phone at home." be rewritten to contain alliteration?

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I fled, forgetting my phone was in the family room.

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How could the following sentence be rewritten to contain assonance? Joy ate lots of dessert.

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Joy did eat three pieces of cheesecake.