Poetic Sound Devices Rvw

SOUND DEVICES create a specific sound effect (harsh or pleasing) in order to emphasize the poem’s overall meaning.

• True
• False

The repetition of identical sounds WITHIN a line of poetry.

• internal rhyme
• end rhyme
• alliteration
• assonance

REPETITION is the repeating of a sound, word, phrase in a given literary work.

• True
• False

The repetition of CONSONANT sounds at the BEGINNINGS of words.

• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• consonance
• assonance

The repetition of identical or similar VOWEL sounds in nearby words.

• assonance
• consonance
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration

The use of words whose sounds suggest the sounds made by objects or activities.

• onomatopoeia
• consonance
• end rhyme
• internal rhyme

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

• alliteration
• assonance
• consonance
• onomatopoeia

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

• assonance
• alliteration
• rhyme
• repetition

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

• consonance
• alliteration
• assonance
• rhythm

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