Consonance

What is consonance?

• The repetition of any letter sound in a line

• The repetition of words or phrases in a poem

• The repetition of vowel sounds in a line

• The repetition of consonant sounds in a line

Snivelling, snotty Snape slunk into the slimy dungeons.

• onomatopoeia

• consonance

• assonance

• imagery

What poetry term is used when the same consonant sound is used many times in a line but at ANY PART of the words.

• consonance

• rhyme

• poetry

• alliteration

What poetry term is being used in this sentence: "Both thieves breathed their last."

• consonance

• alliteration

repetition of similar consonant sounds at the end of accented syllables as in "wind" and "sand"

• consonance

• assonance

• meter

• rhyme

Consonance

Answer explanation

A similarity in sound between two words, or an initial rhyme

the repetition of the same consonant sounds among words (not limited to initial sounds)

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

Words in a phrase or line that have repeating consonant sounds within non-rhyming words

• Metaphor

• Consonance

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

Define the underlined poetic device:

He stood on the road and cried.

• Assonance

• Hyperbole

• Consonance

• Metaphor

Which of the following is an example of consonance?

• The early bird catches the worm.

• The pitter-patter of little feet.

• She sells seashells by the seashore.

• The whisper of the wind was wild and whimsical.