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Poetic techniques in 'Chimera' by Janey Colbourne

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

"as money and sanity clash"

a)

simile

b)

personification

c)

anthropomorphism

d)

metaphor

2.

"Theft of resources is murder"

a)

personification

b)

anthropomorphism

c)

zoomorphism

d)

metaphor

3.

"Cities shrouded in toxic fumes"

a)

metaphor

b)

personification

c)

zoomorphism

d)

sibilance

4.

"the world watches in helpless horror" (2 techniques).

a)

alliteration

b)

zoomorphism

c)

metaphor

d)

personification

5.

"turn a blind eye"

a)

idiom

b)

anthropomorphism

c)

simile

d)

personification

6.

"as the lungs of the planet die"

a)

personification

b)

metaphor

c)

zoomorphism

d)

idiom

7.

"fat dragons sat hoarding their gold"

a)

zoomorphism

b)

anthropomorphism

c)

personification

d)

simile

8.

"despair is the breath of chimera / whispering"

a)

zoomorphism

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

assonance

9.

"our power is in persistence"

a)

assonance

b)

alliteration

c)

sibilance

d)

onomatopoeia

10.

"life shall take root in the bare dust"

a)

personification

b)

sibilance

c)

metaphor

d)

zoomorphism