Sound Devices Practice

Repetition of vowel sounds is what?

Which of the following is an example of alliteration? Select all that apply.

• The sun set slowly in the sky
• She sells seashells by the seashore
• The wind howled in the night
• A loud crash echoed through the hall

What poetic sound device is being used in this line: "The buzzing bee buzzed by"?

• Oxymoron
• Assonance
• Onomatopoeia
• Consonance

Which line best shows assonance?

• The light is blinding me
• Mike likes his new bike
• The winds is messing with my hair
• The cat sat on window sill.

Which sound device is used in the phrase "click, clack, clunk"?

• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Assonance
• Consonance

What sound device is used in this line: "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain"?

• Onomatopoeia
• Assonance
• Consonance
• Rhyme

What is the purpose of using sound devices in poetry

• To confuse the reader
• To show off the poet’s vocabulary
• To create rhythm, mood, and musical quality
• To explain historical facts

In the line from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”: “And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain...” What poetic sound device is used in this line?

• Onomatopoeia
• Assonance
• Alliteration
• Rhyme

From “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost: “Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour.” Which sound device is being used in the line “But only so an hour”?

• Rhyme
• Assonance
• Onomatopoeia
• Consonance

From “The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe: “How they clang, and clash, and roar!” What poetic sound device is used in this line?

• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Internal rhyme