Alliteration and Assonance Review

Big bumbling bumblebees rode light, lilting breezes

• alliteration
• assonance
• imagery
• cute

A blue, new moon rose high in the sky, casting a subdued hue over the school.

• consonance
• assonance
• imagery
• creepy

A tall tree could fall hard, even with no ear near.

• alliteration
• assonance
• consonance
• parable

What is alliteration?

• The repetition of a letter in a line
• the repetition of a letter sound in a line
• the repetition of only vowel sounds
• A really annoying test topic

What is assonance?

• The repetition of vowel sounds in a line
• The repetition of consonant sounds in a line
• The repetition of any letter sounds in a line
• I don't care!

What is an onomatopoeia?

•  word that represents a sound
• word that represents an idea
• it is a different word for alliteration
• word that is hard to spell 

Moo

• onomatopoeia
• assonance
• consonance
• imagery

Crash! Bang! Pow!

• onomatopoeia
• assonance
• consonance
• imagery

Drip...drip...drip

• onomatopoeia
• assonance
• consonance
• imagery

AAAAAAAH!

• onomatopoeia
• assonance
• consonance
• imagery