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The repetition of similar sounds at the beginnings of words or accented syllables is called...

Example: Crazy cats called their kittens into the kitchen for a game of catch.

• anaphora

• alliteration

• simile

• personification

Choose the poem that uses alliteration.

Poem 1:

The clouds had made a crimson crown

About the mountains high.

The stormy sun was going down

In a stormy sky.

Poem 2:

Three paces in the moonlight's glow I stand,

And here within the twilight beats my heart.

I'm not asking you to finish

But—to start.

From Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, "A Moment" and from Djuna Barnes, "Serenade"

• Poem 1

• Poem 2

Deliberate repetition of words at the beginnings of sentences, lines, or clauses is called...

Example:

William Wordsworth in “Tintern Abbey“:

“Five years have passed;

Five summers, with the length of

Five long winters! and again I hear these waters…”

• alliteration

• anaphora

• simile

• personification

Choose the poem that uses anaphora.

Poem 1:

In the dreamy silence

Of the afternoon, a

Cloth of gold is woven

Over wood and prairie.

Poem 2:

It would be easy to forgive,

If I could but remember;

If I could hear, lost love of mine,

The music of your cruelties.

From Alexander Posey, "Autumn" and from Leonora Speyer, "Enigma"

• Poem 1

• Poem 2

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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CCSS.L.6.5A

Which of the following is an example of personification?

• You are as a beautiful as a flower.
• The trees danced in the wind.
• I waited in line for 10 years!
• He is an encyclopedia of knowledge. 

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Which is an example of a simile?

• His room was a hurricane of a mess.
• His room looked as if a hurricane came  through.
• A hurricane! AHHH!
• The hurricane screamed through the town. 

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What's the meaning of this simile?
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."

• Her hair is red.
• She talks really loudly.
• She gets really angry. 
• She spits when she talks. 

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Simile or Metaphor:
My life is a dream.

• simile
• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Simile or Metaphor:
Math is like a puzzle that never ends.

• simile
• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D