Poetry Practice 4 (02.21.24)

A word or phrase that is used together even though it is contradictory or opposite is...

• An Analogy

• An Oxymoron

• An Onomatopoeia

• A Hyperbole

Which of the following is the best definition for Personification?

• Describing in animate objects with human characteristics

• Repeating the same beginning consonant sound at the beginning of lines

• The use of two words that contradict one another

• Words that imitate sounds

Uses extreme exaggeration.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Has two or more words in a line that start with the same sound.

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

When a phrase conveys a figurative meaning that is difficult or impossible to understand based only on its literal interpretation.

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

• Allusion

• Alliteration

When a writer references a well-known person, place, thing, event, or famous work.

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Idiom

Any instance in which the narrator or a character says one thing but means something else is

• Verbal Irony
• Situational Irony
• Dramatic Irony

What is the best definition for imagery?

• Saying something you don't mean

• Using descriptive words that appeal to the senses

• Explaining what something is to a person

• Taking a picture of a picture

the pattern of rhymes at the end of lines to which we assign letters of the alphabet

• alliteration

• end rhyme

• rhyme scheme

• internal rhyme

What is the best definition of Metaphor?

• The feeling created by the writer

• Repeating the same ending sound

• Comparing two unalike things using the words 'is, was, were, are'

• Comparing two alike things using the words "as" and "like"