Poetry Review Quiz

What is alliteration?

• 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

What is assonance?

• 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

This type of figurative language compares two unlike things using like or as.

• metaphor
• hyperbole
• simile
• stanza

Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

Come and clean the chaos in your closet.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

Son of a gun

• Alliteration

• Assonance

Kim came to help us cut out a colorful kite for Chris.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

Little Larry likes licking the sticky lollipop.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

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

• True
• False

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.”