Poetry Terms 1/2

A word that imitates a sound, for example BUZZ and POP:

• Metaphor
• Sound
• Onomotopoeia
• Rhythm 

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Hyperboles are phrases that

• compare two unlike things
• exaggerate
• give person-like qualities to animals and things
• have a different meaning than the words.

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What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated
• Giving human characteristics to non-human things
• A word that is a sound
• An exaggeration

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What is an idiom?

• A comparison not using like or as
• An exaggeration
• A phrase that is not meant to be taken literally
• The same beginning sounds repeated

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What is a metaphor?

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things
• A comparison not using like or as
• Words that are sounds
• A comparison using like or as

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What is imagery?

• An exaggeration
• A phrase that is not meant to be taken literally
• The same beginning sound repeated
• Words or phrases that appeal to the 5 senses

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What is a simile?

• A comparison using like or as
• A comparison not using like or as
• Giving human characteristics to non-human things
• A word that is a sound

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Which one of these could be a personification?

• He is as slow as a turtle
• The tornado ran through town without a care
• BOOM!!
• I'm just too lazy to pick another answer

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When two or more words have the same sound at the ends of lines is:

• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole
• rhyme

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When several words begin with the same consonant sound in a row is:

• personification
• alliteration
• metaphor
• simile

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