Poetic Sound Devices (Accelerated)

A stanza that contains two lines (usually rhyming) is called a: 

• monostitch

• couplet

• tercet

• octave

What is the rhyme scheme of this poem? 

Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly. 

Hold fast to dreams

For when dreams go

Life is a barren field

Frozen with snow. 

• ABCB DEFE

• AABB CCDD

• ABCD EFGH

• ABCB DEFG

This sound device uses the same consonant sound at the beginning of each stressed syllable. 

Example:

Betty Botter bought some butter

But she said the butter’s bitter,

'If I put it in my batter

It will make my batter bitter.

• alliteration

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme

• eye rhyme

The rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines is called:

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

• eye rhyme

• front rhyme

This type of rhyme uses words that have similar but not identical sounds. An example would be "young" and "song". 

• imperfect rhyme

• perfect rhyme

• eye rhyme

• end rhyme

This is a rhyme between words within a line and another word, either at the end of the same line, or within another line. 

The ship was cheer’d, the harbor clear’d,

And every day, for food or play, In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,

Whiles all the Night, through fog-smoke white,

Glimmer’d the white moonshine

• beginning rhyme

• internal rhyme

• eye rhyme

• end rhyme

Words that sound like the things they describe, such as "buzz" or "choo choo"

• personification

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

The repetition of vowel sounds in one or more lines:

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Dissonance

The repetition of consonant sounds only in one or more lines.

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Dissonance

True or False: Rhyme is a tool that poets use to create rhythm, enhance a poem's aesthetic, or evoke emotional responses from the reader or listener.

• True

• False