Sound Devices: Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, and Onomatopoeia

Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese is an example of ________________.

• assonance
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Boom! 
Woof.
Crash!
Splash.
Oink.

• personification
• simile
• onomatopoeia
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Definition:

The repetition of sounds in the beginning of words.

• Alliteration

• Symbol

• Assonance

• Rhythm

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Definition:
The use of words that imitate sounds

• Simile
• Imagery
• Onomatopoeia 
• Repetition 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Definition:

The repetition of similar consonant sounds in the middle or end of a series of words

• Consonance

• Repetition

• Symbol

• Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Definition:
The repetition of sounds at the ends of words

• Personification
• Repetition
• Rhyme
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Definition:
The repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words

• Imagery
• Assonance 
• Rhythm 
• Symbol 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What type of Sound Device?
From somewhere far beyond, the flag of fate's caprice unfurled,

• Imagery
• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Rhythm

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What type of Sound Device?

The buzzing bee flew away.

• Imagery 
• Consonance
• Rhyme
• Onomatopoeia 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is assonance?

• The repetition of letters in a line of poetry
• the repetition of letter sounds in a line of poetry
• the repetition of vowel sounds in poetry
• the repetition of consonant sounds in poetry

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4