Rhyme Time--Definitions
Final consonant sounds are the same, but vowel sounds are different.
Slant Rhyme
She sat in the house red/
Munching delicious bread
End/Exact/Masculine
Sounds or words are pleasant to the ear.
Euphony
With Blue—uncertain—stumbling Buzz--
Onomatopoeia
True or False: alliteration can be initial and internal.
True
Occurs at the end of lines (plural).
End Rhyme
He sat in the sun, pondering the moon
Internal/Slant/Masculine
Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of a series of words.
Alliteration
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves/Did gyre and gamble in the wabe.
Cacophony
True or False: repetition can only occur within a single stanza.
False
Occurs with 1-syllable words or stressed final syllables of multi-syllable words.
Masculine Rhyme
In the lands so fertile/ I met a giant turtle
End/Exact/Feminine
A word imitates a sound.
Onomatopoeia
So smooth, so sweet, so silv’ry
Repetition, Alliteration
Give an example of internal rhyme.
:)
Occurs within a single line.
Internal Rhyme
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Internal/Exact/Feminine
Sounds or words harsh or unpleasant to the ear.
Cacophony
Eyes like sapphires shining bright
Assonance
Give an example of cacophony.
:)
Occurs with multi-syllable words when the stress is on a syllable other than the last.
Feminine Rhyme
Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning
Internal/Exact/Feminine
Repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words.
Assonance
Her ever-during gates, harmonious sound.
Alliteration, Euphony
Give an example of onomatopoeia.
:)