Poetry Terms
Alliteration Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words For example: The wind in the willows waned
Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds For example: Who do you think of when you do that?
Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds NOT at the beginnings of words For example: I scattered the tattered and battered remnants.
Onomatopoeia Words that sound like the sound they represent For example: The clop, clop, clop of the horse’s hooves
End Rhyme Rhyming words at the ends of lines For example: We ran to keep up with the bus How could they drive off without us
Internal Rhyme Rhyming words within a line of poetry For example: The writer was sending the ending of the poem
Personification Giving human qualities to inanimate objects For example: The warm breeze whispered promises of summer.
Find the examples of alliteration, assonance, and consonance. A tutor who tooted the flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot. Said the two to the tutor, “Is it harder to toot? Or to tutor two tooters to toot?”