Poetry and Sound Devices Review

What is a paragraph of poetry lines called?

• Verse

• Stanza

• Stanzi

• Versa

What is repetition of vowel noises anywhere in a word called?

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Assonance

What is repetition of initial consonant noises anywhere in a word called?

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

What sound device do these words demonstrate: flow/fleet?

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Assonance

What sound device do these words demonstrate: Stutter/Blot?

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

What kind of rhyme focuses only on the last words in lines of poetry?

• Slant Rhyme

• Eye rhyme

• End rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the rhyme scheme?

When my mother died I was very young,

And my father sold me while yet my tongue

Could scarcely cry " 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!"

So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.

• AABB

• ABAB

• AAAA

• BBBB

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.5

What is the rhyme scheme?

Forgive these wild and wandering cries,

Confusions of a wasted youth;

Forgive them where they fail in truth,

And in thy wisdom make me wise.

• AAAB

• ABBA

• AAAA

• ABCD

What is the rhyme scheme?

It was the schooner Hesperus,

That sailed the wintry sea;

And the skipper had taken his little daughtèr,

To bear him company.

• AAAB

• ABCD

• AABB

• ABCB

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.5

What is a couplet?

• a group of lines
• a pair of rhyming lines
• a rhyme scheme
• a pair of poems