Poetry: Sound Devices Quiz

Assonance is

Question Answer Choices Repetition of consonant sounds A dirty word you call your English instructor Musical poetry Repetition of identical vowel sounds

Alliteration is

Question Answer Choices The “litter” poets edit from their poems Repetition of identical consonant sounds close together The use of masculine rhyme A kind of end rhyme

The line “Your songs that sound ground under some stud’s heel” makes use of

Question Answer Choices Near rhyme Rhythm Internal ryhme End rhyme

Wilfren Owen's line “Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge” provides multiple examples of which technique?

Question Answer Choices Simile Consonance Exact rhyme Assonance

Dickinson’s line, “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died” makes use of which poetic technique?

Question Answer Choices Scansion Rhyme Diction Onomatopoeia