Poetry - sound devices

What is alliteration?

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

• the repetition of the first consonant sounds in a series of words

Slippery, smooth silk slipped through Sarah's slender fingers

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

Identify which poetic device is used below:

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plains.

• Rhyme

• Personification

• Metaphor

The ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of the lines of a poem or verse is referred to as:

• Syntax

• Rhyme Scheme

• Personification

A stanza is similar to a(n):

• Essay

• Paragraph

• Line

A figure of speech saying one thing is another thing to make a comparison.

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

ABAB, ABBA, or AABB are all types of:

• Theme

• Personification

• Literary Devices

• Rhyme Scheme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Poetry usually has a regular beat.  This beat is called the…

• rhythm
• alliteration
• assonance
• consonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

REPETITION is the repeating of a sound, word, phrase in a given literary work.

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

Ring! Ring! is an example of...

• rhyme

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia