Poetic Devices

To which sense does the word in red appeal?
I munched on the savory red apple.

• touch
• taste
• sound
• smell

Identify the sound device:
My wet shoes squished as I walked across the floor.

• alliteration
• assonance
• consonance
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

Identify the sound device:
She sang somber songs on Saturdays.

• assonance
• alliteration
• rhyme
• repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Identify the sound device:
Slow the low gradual moan came in the snowing.
- John Masefield

• consonance
• alliteration
• assonance
• rhythm

Identify the sound device:
cat
bat
hat
rat
fat

• rhyme
• rhythm
• alliteration
• consonance

Identify the sound device:
Do you like green eggs and ham?
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
-Dr. Seuss

• end rhyme
• internal rhyme
• slant rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Identify the sound device:
Standing brave in the secret caves
We call to lost kids in the crowd

• end rhyme
• internal rhyme
• slant rhyme

Identify the sound device:
If love is like a bridge
or maybe like a grudge.
- George Wolff

• end rhyme
• internal rhyme
• slant rhyme

Identify the sound device:
Some mammals are clammy.

• assonance
• consonance
• alliteration
• repetition

Identify the sound device:
I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor
A boa constrictor
A boa constrictor
I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor
- Shel Silverstein

• rhythm
• rhyme
• repetition
• alliteration