Fill-in Quiz: Musical Devices
Short-answer questions on alliteration, assonance, consonance, and rime.
ENGLISH 12AP: Literature and Composition
Quiz - Musical Devices
Name
Date Per.
Mr. Reed
1.What musical device is accomplished by the repetition of initial consonant sounds?
2.What musical device is accomplished by the repetition of vowel sounds?
3.What musical device is accomplished by the repetition of final consonant sounds?
4.What musical device is accomplished by the repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds?
5.If it (#4) involves only one syllable, what word describes it?
6.If it (#4) involves two or more syllables, what word describes it?
7.If it (#4) involves one or more words within a line, what word describes it?
8.If it (#4) is restricted to words that come at the ends of lines, what words describes it?
9.If it (#4) involves words with any kind of sound similarity, from close to fairly remote, what word describes it?
10.What musical device is accomplished by the repetition of whole words, phrases, lines, or groups of lines?
BONUS:
A.Perrine suggests that all art consists of giving structure to two elements. What are the two
B.elements to which he refer? [Use blanks A & B.]