Rhymes/Sounds

Question 1

Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore

Answer 1

alliteration

Question 2

What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?

I heard a bird sing

In the dark of December.

A magical thing

And sweet to remember.

‘We are nearer to Spring

Than we were in September,”

I heard a bird sing In the dark of December.

Answer 2

ABAB ABBB

Question 3

What figurative language tool is used in this quote? “Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.”

Answer 3

assonance and personification

Question 4

What tool is used to create emphasis in this poem? Hint: It is NOT rhyme. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the King’s horses and all the King’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again

Answer 4

repetition

Question 5

What is the rhyme scheme?

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Answer 5

ABAAB