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IEC Quiz - Sound Devices

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

7. What sound device is used in the following sentence:

I must confess my loneliness.

a)

a. Internal Rhyme

b)

b. Alliteration

c)

c. Assonance

d)

d. Consonance

2.

9. What sound device is used in the following sentence:

The wind whipped through the windows.

a)

a. Onomatopoeia

b)

b. Alliteration

c)

c. Assonance

d)

d. End Rhyme

3.
Identify the sound device:
Slow the low gradual moan came in the snowing.
- John Masefield
a)
consonance
b)
alliteration
c)
assonance
d)
rhythm
4.
Identify the sound device:
My wet shoes squished as I walked across the floor.
a)
alliteration
b)
assonance
c)
consonance
d)
onomatopoeia
5.
repeated vowel sounds
They roam the lonesome roads and never go home.
a)
alliteration
b)
consonance
c)
assonance
d)
onomatopoeia
6.

Chilly chicken children shivered with goosebumps

a)

alliteration

b)

assonance

c)

consonance

d)

Onomatopoeia

7.

"He sneezed in the breeze on his feet." is what type of sound device?

a)

alliteration

b)

assonance

c)

oxymoron

d)

repetition

8.
repeated consonant sounds at the ends of words
On the top of the step he will tip his cap.
a)
alliteration
b)
consonance
c)
assonance
d)
onomatopoeia
9.

What is consonance?

a)

The repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in a series of words in the same line.

b)

the repetition of the first consonant sounds in a series of words

c)

the repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words

d)

the repetition of lines or groups of lines in a poem or song

10.
"Quit biting that tarp!" I told the spitting cat.
a)
alliteration
b)
assonance
c)
consonance
d)
refrain
11.
I cried, why? Why my life?
a)
onomatopoeia
b)
assonance
c)
consonance
d)
imagery
12.

"A leader that is responsible, a leader that is dedicated, a leader that is kind to others" is an example of a?

a)

Alliteration

b)

Repetition

c)

Rhyme

13.

Identify the sound device used in the sentence.


Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are.

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky.

a)

Cacophony

b)

Euphony

14.

Identify the the sound device used in the statement.


“I detest war because cause of war is always trivial.”

a)

Euphemism

b)

Cacophony

15.

Which line contains assonance?

a)

"The well was dry beside the door...."

b)

"To seek the brook if still it ran...."

c)

"That slowly dawned behind the trees...."

d)

"And in the hush we joined to make...."