Poetry Sounds

What poetic form reminds us that poetry's origins were in song?

• sonnet

• ballad

• terza rima

• consonance

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Please identify all the examples of alliteration

• descending dewdrops

• haunt awesome

• time tide

• car cite

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

Please select all examples of assonance.

• asleep under a tree

• wedded lady

• haunt awesome

• tide and time

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

When lines of poetry are musically pleasant to the ear and smooth, it is called

• euphony

• cacophony

• assonance

• feminine rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

The line from "Player Piano," "never my numb plunker fumbles" is an example of (pick all that apply)

• assonance

• alliteration

• euphony

• cacophony

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

Brow and blow are

• alliteration

• euphony

• eye rhyme

• masculine rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Choose all the near rhymes.

• home and same

• worth and breath

• conned and fawned

• blade and blood

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

"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

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Identify all the masculine rhymes.

• glade, shade

• betray, away

• gratitude, attitude

• quivering, shivering

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4