Sound Devices in Poetry
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5 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Alliteration | when the first sound in a word is repeated in the line or stanza |
| Onomatopeia | when a word sounds like the sound it represents |
| Assonance | repeated vowel sound (often makes near rhyme) lake, fate, base, fade |
| Consonance | similar to alliteration EXCEPT the repeated consonant can be anywhere in the word, not just at the beginning |
| Refrain | sound, word, phrase or line repeated in a poem |
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