Alliteration, Consonance, and Assonance

What is consonance?

• The repetition of letters in a line of poetry
• the repetition of letter sounds in a line of poetry
• the repetition of vowel sounds in poetry
• the repetition of consonant sounds in poetry

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

Alliteration is the repetition of sounds at the beginning of nearby words.

• True
• False

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What poetry term is used when the same consonant sound is used many times in a line but at ANY PART of the words.

• consonance

• rhyme

• poetry

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is assonance?

• The repetition of vowel sounds in a line
• The repetition of consonant sounds in a line
• The repetition of any letter sounds in a line

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Sheep should sleep in a shed.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which of these lines from Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” contains alliteration?

• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
• “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door
• Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

Are you hungry? Let's find a cafe for ________, __________ and __________. (use alliteration)

• egg, chips and cola

• coffee, cakes and tea

• coffee, cakes and cola

• fish, chips and coffee

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Great, gregarious Gary from Gryffindor likes grapes.

• onomatopoeia

• assonance

• consonance

• imagery

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4