Sound and Structure in Poetry

Poetic sounds create a specific sound effect (harsh or pleasing) in order to emphasize the poem’s overall meaning.

• True

• False

The repetition/correspondence of identical sounds at the ENDS of lines of poetry.

Example:

I love to pet my cat.

But my cat doesn't care about that.

• onomatopoeia

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme

• consonance

The repetition/correspondence of identical sounds WITHIN a line of poetry.

Oh how it seems that my dreams can't come true.

I try and try, to make myself fly.

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme

• alliteration

• assonance

REPETITION is the repeating of a sound, word, phrase in a given literary work.

• True

• False

The repetition of CONSONANT sounds at the BEGINNINGS of words.

Tiny Tim had only just tried to tie his tennis shoes.

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

• consonance

• alliteration

The repetition of identical or similar VOWEL sounds in nearby words.

The evening sky deepened, darkening the green of the trees.

• consonance

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Repetition of the same CONSONANT sounds WITHIN in the word.

Silly Billy got up really early.

• consonance

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

• end rhyme

The use of words that create the sound that they describe.

"Bam!", "Swoosh", "Moo", "Cricket", "Achooo!"

• onomatopoeia

• consonance

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

What is a stanza?

• A repetition of sounds in a poem.

• The arrangements of lines into groups, like a paragraph.

• When consonant sounds repeat.

• When there is a period at the end of a line of poetry.

How many lines of poetry does a couplet have?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4