Poetic devices English 4

Assonance is...

• The repetition of consonant sounds inside or at the end of words close together.

• The repetition of vowel sounds in words close together.

• The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words close together.

• A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Consonance is...

• The repetition of words at the beginning of several sentences or lines of poetry close together.

• The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words close together.

• The repetition of vowel sounds in words close together.

• The repetition of consonant sounds inside or at the end of words close together.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The repetition of initial consonant sounds is...

• Allusion

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Consonance

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The phrase "teeny mini-bitsy bikini" is an example of...

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Alliteration

• Allusion

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The line from Romeo and Juliette "parting is such sweet sorrow" contains an example of which device?

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Imagery

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A sustained comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is spoken as if it were another is...

• A conceit

• A simile

• An extended metaphor

• An analogy

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CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry is...

• meter

• rhyme scheme

• hyperbole

• beat

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A figure of speech that gives human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea is...

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CCSS.L.6.5A

A consistent pattern of rhyme throughout a poem is...

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"Yo mama is so ugly, she threw a boomerang and it refused to come back" is an example of...

• Hyperbole

• Understatement

• Exaggeration

• Imagery

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6