Poetry Sounds

What poetic form reminds us that poetry's origins were in song?

• sonnet

• ballad

• terza rima

• consonance

Which of these poems from the reading is primarily about the sounds it creates more than anything else through extensive onomatopoeia?

• Scarborough Fair

• A Bird came down the Walk--

• Player Piano

• French Toast

Please identify all the examples of alliteration

• descending dewdrops

• haunt awesome

• time tide

• car cite

Please select all examples of assonance.

• asleep under a tree

• wedded lady

• haunt awesome

• tide and time

When lines of poetry are musically pleasant to the ear and smooth, it is called

• euphony

• cacophony

• assonance

• feminine rhyme

The line from "Player Piano," "never my numb plunker fumbles" is an example of (pick all that apply)

• assonance

• alliteration

• euphony

• cacophony

Brow and blow are

• alliteration

• euphony

• eye rhyme

• masculine rhyme

Choose all the near rhymes.

• home and same

• worth and breath

• conned and fawned

• blade and blood

"Dividing and gliding and sliding" This line from the poem "The Cataract of Lodore" in the reading creates the sound of cascading water primarily through repeated use of

• near rhyme

• feminine rhyme

• assonance

• eye rhyme

Identify all the masculine rhymes.

• glade, shade

• betray, away

• gratitude, attitude

• quivering, shivering