Poetic Devices and Word Sounds

The cat in the hat swung the bat.

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

• Consonance

• Assonance

The boar wanted more, so he went to the store.

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

• Consonance

• Assonance

Simon says, “Go seven steps.”

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

• Consonance

• Assonance

The use of words whose sounds suggest the sounds made by objects or activities.

• onomatopoeia

• consonance

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

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

• True

• False

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

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

• onomatopoeia

• consonance

The repetition of identical sounds WITHIN a line of poetry.

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme

• alliteration

• assonance

The repetition of CONSONANT sounds at the BEGINNINGS of words.

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• consonance

• assonance

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

• assonance

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Repetition of the same CONSONANT two or more times in short succession.

• consonance

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

• end rhyme