Unit 2 Lesson 1

Question 1

Sound Devices

Answer 1

Alliteraton
Assonance
Consonance
Cacophony
Euophony
Onomatopoeia
Repetiton
Rhyme

Question 2

Example:

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper

Answer 2

Alliteration (littera - letter of the alphabet) is the
repetition of similar sounds at the beginning of
closely spaced words.

Question 3

Examples:

“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”

• Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

“The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain.”

• My Fair Lady, Alan Jay Lerner

Answer 3

Assonance (assonare - to answer with the same
sound) is the repetition of vowel sounds that form
internal rhymes in a line.

Question 4

Fred wondered why the road wound to a jagged end.

The big frog was on a log.

All’s well that ends well.

Answer 4

Consonance (consonantem - harmony, agreement) is
the repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the end
of words.

Question 5

Example:

Double, double toil and trouble!

Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Filet of a fenny snake,

In the cauldron boil and bake

Answer 5

Cacophony is the use of jarring sounds, meant to
convey disorder.

Question 6

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are.

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

Answer 6

Euphony (euophonosis – sweet sound/sweet-voiced)
the use of sound devices meant to create a pleasant
experience to the ear.

Question 7

I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –

The Stillness in the Room

Was like the Stillness in the Air –

Between the Heaves of Storm –

Answer 7

Onomatopoeia is the use of words that mimic the
natural sound of what is being described.

Question 8

Wax on. Wax off. – The Karate Kid

O Captain! my Captain! -O Captain! My Captain!

“Bond. James Bond.” -James Bond films

Answer 8

Repetition is the repetition of words or phrases to
form rhythm or to emphasize an idea.

Question 9

Example:

You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Answer 9

Rhyme is the repetition of identical (or similar)
sounds in two or more words, most often at the end
of lines in a poem.