Teaching Sound Devices

The best part about music class is that you can bang on the drum.

• onomatopeia

• alliteration

• consonance

• assonance

The repetition of one or more initial sounds in words within a line is called

• consonance

• assonance

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words is called

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

The repetition of two or more consonant sounds within a line is called

• assonance

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Read the following passage:

A greedy and ambitious cow / determined she would graze

on all the fields for miles around... / She grazed for days and days

Choose all the devices that apply to the passage.

• alliteration

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

• rhyme

Read the following passage:

Hooray say the roses, cannons and spires

birds, bees, bombers, today is Friday

Choose all the devices that apply to the passage.

• alliteration

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

• rhyme

Determine the rhyme scheme for the poem below.

Roses are red

Violets are blue

I like breakfast in bed

And so do you

• AABB

• ABAB

• ABCA

• ABAC

Determine the rhyme scheme for the poem below

Sand between my toes

Only the water knows

Where the fish go

For I don't know

• AABB

• ABAB

• ABBC

• AABC

When two or more words rhyme within a line is called

• end rhyme

• repetition

• rythym

• internal rhyme

What is the purpose of using repetition in poetry?

• to make sure the reader knows that the word is important

• to add imagery to the story

• to make an idea clearer and more memorable