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WorksheetsPoetic techniques in 'Chimera' by Janey Colbourne
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
"as money and sanity clash"
simile
personification
anthropomorphism
metaphor
"Theft of resources is murder"
personification
anthropomorphism
zoomorphism
metaphor
"Cities shrouded in toxic fumes"
metaphor
personification
zoomorphism
sibilance
"the world watches in helpless horror" (2 techniques).
alliteration
zoomorphism
metaphor
personification
"turn a blind eye"
idiom
anthropomorphism
simile
personification
"as the lungs of the planet die"
personification
metaphor
zoomorphism
idiom
"fat dragons sat hoarding their gold"
zoomorphism
anthropomorphism
personification
simile
"despair is the breath of chimera / whispering"
zoomorphism
metaphor
personification
assonance
"our power is in persistence"
assonance
alliteration
sibilance
onomatopoeia
"life shall take root in the bare dust"
personification
sibilance
metaphor
zoomorphism
