Poetic Devises

What is 'Alliteration'?

• A speech impediment

• Repeating consonant sounds near each other

• Repeated vowel sounds near each other

• A line in a poem

What is 'Assonance'?

• Repeated consonant sounds near each other

• Sarcasm that hints at what is to come

• A way to assert your point in a poem

• Repeated vowel sounds near each other

What is 'Consonance'?

• Repeated consonant sounds at the ending of words

• repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

• Empathy towards a situation that is happening to the main character

• Constant criticism from one character to another

Choose the example of 'Cacophony':

• And, chuckling, they knuckle the keys

• Connon to the right of them, cannon to the left of them

• Too silver for a seam

• Peter patted the pony at the barn

What is 'Euphony'?

• A response to someone sneezing.

• a series of unpleasant sounds

• Enthusiasm for a coincidence

• a series of musically pleasant sounds

An example of 'Onomatopoeia' is:

• regrets, misses, saddens

• red, purple, blue

• boom, buzz, hiss

• blurry, hazy, snowy

What is another word for 'Parallelism?

What is it called when words that have different beginning sounds but whose endings sound the same?

• Rhythm

• Rhymers

• Rhyton

• Rhyme

What is 'Rhythm'?

• A regular pattern of accented syllables separated by unaccented syllables

• An irregular pattern of unaccented syllables

• Jazz or blues

• A pattern of words that rhyme together

What is an 'Allegory'? A representation of?

• A calming atmosphere

• Animals with human characteristics

• Abstract or spiritual meaning

• Humans with animal characteristics