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POETRY TEST

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  • A pickle is not a banana. What two things are being compared?
    The pickle and banana.
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  • The teacher is a bat. What figurative language is used in the sentence?
    metaphor
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  • The purple pretty penguin is an example of what sound device?
    alliteration
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  • "the startled papers leaping off the desks" is an example of what?
    personification
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  • Pow! Bam! are examples of what?
    Onomatopoeia
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  • What is an example of rhyme scheme for this? My name is hall I do not want to fall I do not like bees and I do not like flees I do like pickles
    AABBC
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  • What is a comparison of using two unlike things without using like or as?
    metaphor
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  • The usage of the same beginning sound in a sentence or multiple sentences?
    Alliteration
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  • A figure of speech that compares two different things using like or as
    simile
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  • Vivid descriptions that appeal to at least one of the five sense
    Imagery
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  • What is words whose sounds suggest its meaning?
    onomatopoeia
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  • Giving human qualities to ideas and things?
    personification
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  • A group of lines forming a paragraph in a poem
    stanza
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  • A word or line that is repeated throughout a poem to create a certain effect
    repetition
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  • A musical quality created by the alternation of accented and unaccented syllables
    rhythm
  •  20
  • What is an example of a simile?
    Mrs. Daly decides
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