Sound devices - Poetry

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What is rhyme scheme?

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The pattern of the rhyme in a poem.

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What is rhyme?

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Words that sound alike at the end.

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What is internal rhyme?

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A rhyme that occurs within a single line of poetry.

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What is end rhyme?

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A rhyme that occurs at the end of lines in a poem.

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What is slant rhyme?

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A type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds.

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What is alliteration?

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The repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words.

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What is personification?

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Attributing human characteristics to non-human entities.

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What is onomatopoeia?

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A word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound it describes.

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What is a couplet?

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Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.

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What is a quatrain?

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A stanza or poem of four lines, often with alternating rhymes.