Sound Devices
"It's close to midnight
And something evil's lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight
You see a sight that almost stops your heart"
These lyrics use assonance and consonance to create this poetic sound device.
What is rhyme?
This type of rhyme is perfectly splendid. Though is sound exactly the same... its letters may be blended.
What is full (exact) rhyme
This is the structural element of poetry used to indicate the pattern of stressed syllables in a line of poetry.
What is meter
This refers to the group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
What is "We Wear the Mask"?
"Red roses ruin good dates."
In this example the "r" sound is repeated at the beginning of words thus illustrating this repetitive sound device.
What is alliteration?
This type of rhyme is somewhat titled. It doesn't quite sound right unless it's printed.
What is half (slant) rhyme.
This metered pattern is made up of unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable.
What is an iamb?
In a conventional or traditional sonnet, you can expect to see this many lines.
What is 14?
Who is Wilfred Owen?
This type of rhyme may use consonance or assonance, but does not have a full rhyme sound. An example would be young and song.
What is slant (half) rhyme?
"As horror looks you right between the eyes
You're paralyzed"
This slant rhyme is present in this Michael Jackson chiller...
What is Thriller!
This is a type of measurement used in poetry to measure stressed and unstressed syllables.
Hint: you have two of them.
What is feet
What is a rhyming couplet?
Sonnet 130 which is sometimes titled "My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun" was written by this well-known playwright and poet.
Who is William Shakespeare
This sound device refers to repeated vowel sounds within in words.
What is assonanace?
This describes a surgeon who oversees your exams.
If you were coming in the fall
I’d brush the summer by
With half a smile and half a spurn,
As housewives do a fly.
How many feet are in the first line of this poem?
What is four?
This sonnet, also known as a Shakespearean sonnet, has a rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
What is an English sonnet
The title of this category counts as this poetic sound device.
What is Alliteration
This term refers to a sound device that uses a repeated consonant sound at the end or within words that are close together.
What is consonance?
Hurry before you out of time...the answer to this riddle is an exact rhyme!
Here's to the "Dumb god of love" who shoots his arrows from above!
What is Stupid Cupid
If you were coming in the fall
I’d brush the summer by
With half a smile and half a spurn,
As housewives do a fly.
The last line is an example of iambic pentameter or iambic trimeter?
What is iambic trimeter.
This is a sonnet form named for the poet Edmund Spenser. This sonnet comprises three interlocked quatrains and a final couplet, with the rhyme scheme ABAB BCBC CDCD EE.
What is a Spenserian sonnet?
This term refers to five feet of unstressed and stressed syllable in a line of poetry.
What is iambic pentameter.