Alliteration in Poetry

Onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound it represents.

• True
• False

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Buzz, slurp, click, and boom are examples of _______________.

• Alliteration
• Personification
• Sight Imagery
• Onomatopoeia

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Onomatopoeia is basically _________________ imagery.

• Sight
• Touch
• Sound
• Taste

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What word below in the poem is an example of onomatopoeia?
Fossils (by Ogden Nash)
At midnight in the museum hall
The fossils gathered for a ball
There were no dreams or saxophones,
But just the clatter of their bones…

• gathered
• dreams
• midnight
• clatter

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Alliteration is the repetition of sounds at the beginning of nearby words.

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• False

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Onomatopoeia is a word that ________________  the sound it represents.

• destroys
• imitates
• understands
• analyzes

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Alliteration is the _____________ of sounds at the beginning of nearby words.

• repetition
• imitation
• loss
• mimicking

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What a lucky little lady you are!
^{This is an example of:} 

• Personification
• Taste Imagery
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia

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The purpose of using alliteration in poetry is to decrease the speed at which the poem is read.

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• False

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The purpose of using alliteration in poetry is to increase the speed at which the poem is read.

• True
• False

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