WorksheetsPoetry Sounds
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
What poetic form reminds us that poetry's origins were in song?
sonnet
ballad
terza rima
consonance
Which of these poems from the reading is primarily about the sounds it creates more than anything else through extensive onomatopoeia?
Scarborough Fair
A Bird came down the Walk--
Player Piano
French Toast
Please identify all the examples of alliteration
descending dewdrops
haunt awesome
time tide
car cite
Please select all examples of assonance.
asleep under a tree
wedded lady
haunt awesome
tide and time
When lines of poetry are musically pleasant to the ear and smooth, it is called
euphony
cacophony
assonance
feminine rhyme
The line from "Player Piano," "never my numb plunker fumbles" is an example of (pick all that apply)
assonance
alliteration
euphony
cacophony
Brow and blow are
alliteration
euphony
eye rhyme
masculine rhyme
Choose all the near rhymes.
home and same
worth and breath
conned and fawned
blade and blood
"Dividing and gliding and sliding" This line from the poem "The Cataract of Lodore" in the reading creates the sound of cascading water primarily through repeated use of
near rhyme
feminine rhyme
assonance
eye rhyme
Identify all the masculine rhymes.
glade, shade
betray, away
gratitude, attitude
quivering, shivering
