Poetic Sound

What is rhyme?

• the running over of a sentence from one verse or couplet into another so that closely related words fall in different lines

• correspondence in terminal sounds of units of composition or utterance (such as two or more words or lines of verse)

• a usually rhetorical break in the flow of sound in the middle of a line of verse

Which two sound devices are based on the repetition of consonants? (a)  

• enjambment and caesura
• assonance & rhyme
• alliteration & consonance

What is rhythm?

• a single, unbroken sound of a spoken (or written) word

• the pattern of stresses within a line of verse

• the use of the same word or phrase multiple times

• the repetition of the vowel sound across words within the lines of the poem

What is repetition in poetry?

• a single, unbroken sound of a spoken (or written) word

• the pattern of stresses within a line of verse

• the use of the same word or phrase multiple times

• the repetition of the vowel sound across words within the lines of the poem

What is a syllable?

• a single, unbroken sound of a spoken (or written) word

• the pattern of stresses within a line of verse

• the use of the same word or phrase multiple times

• the repetition of the vowel sound across words within the lines of the poem

What is assonance in a poem?

• a single, unbroken sound of a spoken (or written) word

• the pattern of stresses within a line of verse

• the use of the same word or phrase multiple times

• the repetition of the vowel sound across words within the lines of the poem

Which of the following is an example of a tongue twister?

• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping

• Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness every where: Then were not summer's distillation left, A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass, Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft

• You know New York, you need New York, you know you need unique New York.

• When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy's been swinging them. But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay

True or false? The more alliteration in a poem the better! (a)  

• false
• true

Match the following

• alliteration

• The dog trots freely in the street

  and sees reality

  and the things he sees

• repetition

• What does it mean? Tired, angry, and ill at ease, 

  No man, woman, or child alive could please 

  Me now. And yet I almost dare to laugh

• rhyme

• Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved / His vastness.

• enjambment

• Bid me to weep, and I will weep / While I have eyes to see / And having none, yet I will keep / A heart to weep for thee

• assonance

• never my numb plunker fumbles

Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" uses all of the following poetic devices except...

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—

    While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—

            Only this and nothing more.

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

• repetition

• enjambment