Painting with words - imagery - definitions

Which definition explains the term "symbol"?

• It compares two things, aspects or people using "like" or "as".

• It repeats similar sounding words at the end of lines in a poem.

• It is an object or name that stands for something else, especially a material thing that stands for something you cannot touch.

• It uses identical or similar (grammatical) structures within a sentence or in two (neighbouring) sentences.

Which definition explains the term "metaphor"?

• It compares by saying what something is not "only" by saying what it is like.

• It gives human characteristics to an animal or object.

• It repeats the same sound to letter(s) at the beginning of neighbouring words.

• It compares two things, aspects or people using "like" or "as".

Which definition explains the term "simile"?

• It compares by saying what something is not "only" by saying what it is like.

• It gives human characteristics to an animal or object.

• It repeats the same sound to letter(s) at the beginning of neighbouring words.

• It compares two things, aspects or people using "like" or "as".

Which definition explains the term "personification"?

• It expresses something by using language that says the opposite in order to amuse or criticize.

• It gives human characteristics to an animal or object.

• It uses a less unpleasant word for something to make it sound nicer.

• It uses exaggeration to make something sound bigger or more dramatic.

Which definition explains the term "irony"?

• It expresses something by using language that says the opposite in order to amuse or criticize.

• It gives human characteristics to an animal or object.

• It uses a less unpleasant word for something to make it sound nicer.

• It uses exaggeration to make something sound bigger or more dramatic.

Which definition explains the term "onomatopoeia"?

• It expresses something by using language that says the opposite in order to amuse or criticize.

• It uses identical or similar (grammatical) structures within a sentence or in two (neighbouring) sentences.

• It uses a less unpleasant word for something to make it sound nicer.

• It uses the sounds that an object or animal would make or includes words that imitate that sound.

Which definition explains the term "euphemism"?

• It expresses something by using language that says the opposite in order to amuse or criticize.

• It uses identical or similar (grammatical) structures within a sentence or in two (neighbouring) sentences.

• It uses a less unpleasant word for something to make it sound nicer.

• It compares by saying what something is, not "only" by saying what something is like.

Which definition explains the term "hyperbole"?

• It expresses something by using language that says the opposite in order to amuse or criticize.

• It uses identical or similar (grammatical) structures within a sentence or in two (neighbouring) sentences.

• It uses a less unpleasant word for something to make it sound nicer.

• It uses exaggeration to make something sound bigger or more dramatic.

Which definition explains the term "alliteration"?

• It expresses something by using language that says the opposite in order to amuse or criticize.

• It uses identical or similar (grammatical) structures within a sentence or in two (neighbouring) sentences.

• It repeats the same sound to letter(s) at the beginning of neighbouring words.

• It repeats similar sounding words at the end of lines in a poem.

Which definition explains the term "rhyme"?

• It expresses something by using language that says the opposite in order to amuse or criticize.

• It uses identical or similar (grammatical) structures within a sentence or in two (neighbouring) sentences.

• It repeats the same sound to letter(s) at the beginning of neighbouring words.

• It repeats similar sounding words at the end of lines in a poem.