Poetry Terms Refresher

Identify the use of alliteration in the following sentence: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

• The repetition of the 'p' sound

• The repetition of the 'e' sound

• The repetition of the 'k' sound

• The repetition of the 'r' sound

Which of the following lines demonstrates assonance?

• "The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew"

• "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers"

• "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain"

• "She sells sea shells by the sea shore"

What is the primary difference between assonance and consonance?

• Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds, while consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds.

• Assonance is the repetition of consonant sounds, while consonance is the repetition of vowel sounds.

• Assonance involves rhyme, while consonance does not.

• Assonance is a type of alliteration, while consonance is not.

Which figurative language term is mainly present in this example: "Jack and Jill went up the hill / To fetch a pail of water; / Jack fell down and broke his crown / And Jill came tumbling after."

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• All of the above

Identify the type of rhyme in the following pair of words: "love" and "move."

• Eye rhyme

• Exact rhyme

• Slant rhyme

• Internal rhyme

Which of the following pairs of words is an example of exact rhyme?

• "light" and "night"

• "love" and "prove"

• "shape" and "keep"

• "home" and "come"

What is the difference between eye rhyme and slant rhyme?

• Eye rhyme looks like it should rhyme but doesn't, while slant rhyme sounds similar but doesn't exactly rhyme.

• Eye rhyme sounds similar but doesn't exactly rhyme, while slant rhyme looks like it should rhyme but doesn't.

• Eye rhyme is a type of exact rhyme, while slant rhyme is not.

• Eye rhyme involves consonance, while slant rhyme involves assonance.

Which type of rhyme is present in this example: "worm" and "swarm."

• Exact rhyme

• Eye rhyme

• Internal rhyme

• Slant rhyme

What is internal rhyme?

• rhyming structures with words that share similar sounds but aren't exactly perfect rhymes

• 1. a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next

• a similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation

• a rhyme involving words that rhyme perfectly