Poetic Devices-Sounds of Words

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repeated/same CONSONANT sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other

Ex: Fast and Furious
Peter and Andrew Patted the Pony at Ascot

Question 2

Assonance

Answer 2

Repeated VOWEL sounds in words placed near each other. VOWEL sounds are stressed and accented

Ex. The engineer held the steering to steer the vehicle

Question 3

Consonance

Answer 3

Repeated CONSONANT sounds at the ending of words placed near each other. SOUNDS accented and stressed

Ex. Boats into the past
Cool Soul

Question 4

Cacophony

Answer 4

Series of HARSH, SHARP, UNPLEASANT sounds used to help convey disorder

Primary made out of CONSONANTS (k,g.b,d etc)

Ex. My stick fingers click with a snicker
And chuckling they knuckle the keys

Question 5

Euphony

Answer 5

Series of SOFT, MUSICALLY PLEASANT sounds convey a sense of harmony and beauty to language

Made up out of VOWELS. SEMI VOWELS, NASAL CONSONANTS (l.m.n.r.y etc)

Ex. Than oars divide the ocean
Too silver for a seam
Or butterflies, off banks of Noon

Question 6

Onomatopoeia

Answer 6

Words that sound like their meanings

Ex. boom, buzz, crackle, pop, gurgle, hiss, sizzle, snap, swoosh, zip

Question 7

Repetition

Answer 7

Purposeful re-use of words & phrases for effect.

Ex. Cannon to right of them
Cannon to left of them
Cannon in front of them

Question 8

Rhyme

Answer 8

Words that have different beginning sounds but endings sound alike

Ex. time, slime, mime

Question 9

Double Rhymes & Triple Rhymes

Answer 9

Both like the definition of Rhyme

Double Rhyme: include final 2 syllables
Ex. revival, arrival, survival

Triple Rhyme: include final 3 syllables
Ex. greenery, machinery, scenery

Question 10

Slant Rhyme/Half Rhyme

Answer 10

only the FINAL consonant sounds of the words are the same

BUT

the INITIAL consonants and vowel sounds are different

Ex. soul, oil, foul; taut, sat, knit
(when this appear in mid of lines instead od END then it is a consonance)

Question 11

Near Rhyme

Answer 11

Final VOWEL sounds are the same but Final CONSONANT sounds are different

Ex. Fine, Rhyme

Question 12

Sight Rhyme

Answer 12

Words that are SPELLED the same but are PRONOUCED differently

Ex. enough, cough, through, bough

Question 13

Rhythm

Answer 13

Helps distinguish POETRY & PROSE. Pattern of accented syllables separated by unaccented syllables

Question 14

Meter

Answer 14

The number of FEET in a line

Question 15

Scansion

Answer 15

DESCRIBES rhythm of poetry by dividing the lines into FEET

marking locations of stressed, unstressed syllables & counting the syllables