Poetry Vocabulary Flashcard

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What is a metaphor?

Back

A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things by saying one thing is another thing.

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Which of the following is an example of a simile? a) The wind whispered through the trees. b) The door was as bright as the sun. c) The flowers bloomed in the garden.

Back

The door was as bright as the sun.

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What is personification?

Back

Giving human characteristics to non-human things.

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Which of the following is an example of alliteration? a) She sells seashells by the seashore. b) The cat sat on the mat. c) The sun was bright.

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She sells seashells by the seashore.

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Onomatopoeia

Back

Words imitating sounds

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A _______ compares two things without using the words 'like' or 'as'.

Back

Metaphor

Front

A ______ compares two things using the words 'like' or 'as'.

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simile

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Fill in the blank: Personification gives human qualities to ____________.

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inanimate objects or abstract concepts

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Alliteration is the repetition of ____________ sounds at the beginning of words.

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initial (beginning)

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Onomatopoeia is the use of words that imitate ____________.

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sounds