Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance... with sprinkles

What poetry term is used when the same consonant sound repeats in the middle and ends of words.

• consonance

• rhyme

• poetry

• alliteration

Choose the best alliteration definition:

• The repetition of vowel sounds close together

• The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words.
• The repetition of vowel and consonant sounds within words.

Summer fell away westward with the wind.

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

When the wind works against us in the dark, we wish for flame to light the spark.

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

We make ourselves a place apart

Behind light words that tease and flout...

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

It is under the small, dim summer star,

I know not who these mute folk are...

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

We make ourselves a place apart

Behind light words that tease and flout...

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

And multiplication's school

of fish times fish,

whose silver bodies breed

beneath the shadow

of a boat

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

I love you as the sunlight leads the prow / Of a ship which sails from Hartford to Miami...

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

When I was young and shiny as an apple in the good Lord's garden / I loved a woman whose beauty like the moon moved all the humming heavens to music...

The author compares the woman's beauty to...

• music

• the humming heavens

• the moon