portmanteaus and more

They're is an example of a _______________________________

Homework is an example of a _________________________.

frenemy is an example of a ______________________________.

frenemy comes from the words _________________________________.

"Her eyes are like marbles" is a __________________________.

"The calm lake was a crystal clear mirror" is an example of a ________________________________.

"The trees danced under the wind" is an example of...

• Personification

• Imagery

• Irony

Look at this part from a poem - which technique isn't used here?

1. I’m like tripping right now I have suitcase fever.

2. Dude, man, pare, three people can be the same.

3. Except he’s not who he says he is, pare. He’s a sneeze with Chinese blood: Ha Ching!

(CoÑotations, Paolo Manalo)

• Poetic license

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Imagery

Which instance of poetic license is used in these lines?

I dream of magic lines but they elude me.

Well, sometimes.

(Quoditian Fever, Howard Kerr)

• Grammar change

• Spelling change

• Space change

• Form change

What is the effect of the poetic license used in these lines?

A vindictive old crone called Skyla

Her comments could not be more vile’a

She will give folk such flack

Stabbing them in the back

Well 'madam' I don’t like your style’a*

(BAD MOUTH BRIGADE, Jan Allison)

• It gives the poem a distinctive form.

• It gives the poem a distinctive rhyme.

• It gives the poem a distinctive language.

• It gives the poem a distinctive format.