Poetry Terms/Sound Device Quiz

What is alliteration?

• The repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in a series of words

• the repetition of the consonant sounds at the beginning of a series of words

• the repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words

• the repetition of lines or groups of lines in a poem or song

What is assonance?

• The repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in a series of words
• the repetition of the first consonant sounds in a series of words
• the repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words
• the repetition of lines or groups of lines in a poem or song

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is consonance?

• The repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in a series of words

• the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of a series of words

• the repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words

• the repetition of lines or groups of lines in a poem or song

What is the RHYME SCHEME of this poem?

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Roses are red,

We have the FLU.

I can't smell anything

And neither can YOU

• A, C, A, B

• A, B, C, B

• A, B, C, C

• A, B, A, B

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the rhyme scheme for the poem “Dreams”?

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

• AABB
• ABAB
• ABCB

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

I don't like your little games

Don't like your tilted stage

The role you made me play

Of the fool, no, I don't like you

• ABAA

• ABAB

• ABCD

• AACD

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

When a word in the middle of the sentence rhymes with a word at the end of the sentence.

• Internal Rhyme

• End Rhyme

• Assonance

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

"And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes" is an example of which literary term?

• Internal Rhyme

• End Rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

A word which imitates a sound.

• onomatopoeia

• assonance

• alliteration

• mood

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Identify which poetic device is used below:
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plains.

• Alliteration
• Personification
• Metaphor
• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4