Identifying and Using Assonance

The rhino and the tiger like ice cream.

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

• Consonance

• Assonance

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CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Do you like blue?

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• None of the above

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is assonance?

• the repetition of vowel sounds inside of nearby words

• the repetition of consonant sounds inside of nearby words

• the repetition of the beginning sounds of nearby words

• the feeling a reader gets from a text

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which detail from the following excerpt of the poem "Casey at the Bat" contains assonance?

• "five thousand throats"

• "It rumbled through the valley"

• "It pounded on the mountain"

• "there rose a lusty yell"

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which detail from the lyrics below contains assonance?

• "Well, if you can't on Earth,"

• "There's less gravity—you jump higher"

• "try it on the moon,"

• "With a basketball and land a slam dunk."

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

How could the following sentence be rewritten to contain assonance?

Joy ate lots of dessert.

• Joy ate seven ice cream sandwiches.

• Joy consumed cake and cookies.

• Joy devoured doughnuts all day.

• Joy did eat three pieces of cheesecake.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which detail from the lyrics below contains assonance?

• "is sort of the same"

• "an example of a mammal"

• "not chewing a bone"

• "its eyes shut"

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

When two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start with different consonant sounds, it's called...

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• apostrophe

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Assonance involves:

• Symbols

• Colours

• Repeating vowel sounds

• Using like or as

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which of the following sentences contains assonance?

• A) The cat sat on the mat.

• B) The dog barked loudly.

• C) The wind howled through the trees.

• D) The sun set in the west.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4