Personification & Alliteration Flashcard

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What is alliteration?

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Repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

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What is personification?

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Giving human qualities or characteristics to non-human things.

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In the sentence 'The wind whispered through the trees', what is being personified?

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The wind.

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What human quality is given to the skyscraper in the sentence 'The skyscraper was so tall that it kissed the sky'?

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Kissing.

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What is being personified in the sentence 'The clouds raced across the sky'?

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The clouds.

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True or False: Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

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True.

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Give an example of alliteration.

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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

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What is an example of personification in literature?

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The sun smiled down on us.

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What effect does alliteration have in poetry?

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It creates rhythm and can enhance the mood.

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Identify the alliteration in the phrase 'Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep.'

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The repetition of the 'S' sound.