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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is a metaphor?
A comparison between things using "like" or "as".
A comparison between two very similar things, like lions and tigers.
A comparison where things are given human characteristics even when they are not alive.
A comparison between two unlike things, without using words "like" or "as". Often one thing is said to be another thing.
- 2. Open Ended
How is a metaphor different to a simile?
- 3. Multiple Choice
What is this an example of? “The lazy lady laughed loudly.”
sibilance
assonance
alliteration
repetition
- 4. Multiple Choice
What is the name of the poetic device that stops you in the middle of a line of poetry?
caesura
onomatopoeia
enjambment
metaphor
- 5. Fill in the Blank
Writers of novels write in paragraphs. What is the name of the “paragraphs” poets use? (the sections in a poem) _______________
- 6. Multiple Choice
What is this an example of? “Fly, cry, why, high.”
triplet
alliteration
caesura
rhyme
rhythm
- 7. Multiple Choice
“His eyes were cold like ice.” What is this an example of?
a chat-up line
a metaphor
personification
simile
- 8. Fill in the Blank
__________________ is when poets give human characteristics to things that aren’t alive?
- 9. Open Ended
Who is the speaker in a poem? How are they different from the poet?
- 10. Open Ended
Write the definition and an example of onomatopoeia.
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