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Poetic Devices

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Simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, repetition, personification, rhyme and alliteration

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What is the definition of personification?
Gives animate objects human traits, emotions and abilities.
Gives inanimate objects voices to talk
Gives superpowers to objects
Gives inanimate objects human traits, emotions or abilities.
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What is the definition of a simile?
Comparing objects using 'was' and 'like'
Comparing two objects
A comparison between two objects using 'like' or 'as'
Saying something is something else
3
What is the definition of repetition?
The repetition of sounds
Saying the same word over and over and over again
Just a little bit of history repeating.
The repeating of words, phrases, lines, or stanzas.
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What is the definition of a metaphor?
A comparison between two objects
A comparison between three things, but the first is the best
Saying stuff is stuff
Comparing apples to oranges
5
"You were as brave as a lion." is an a example of what poetic device?
simile
metaphor
personification
rhyme
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What is the definition of onomatopoeia?
The use of words which imitate sound.
Epic sounds from comic book characters mouths
Words that list musical instruments
The use of sounds that imitate words.
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What is the definition of rhyme.
The similarity of ending sounds existing between two words.
Words that have the same ending
Dr Seuss books
Using the same ending sounds in a poem.
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What is the definition of alliteration?
The repetition of vowel sounds.
The repetition of a letter over and over
The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
The repetition of sounds
9
"The snow is a white blanket." is an example of what poetic device?
onomatopoeia
personification
metaphor
simile
10
"Sheep should sleep in a shed" is an example of what poetic device?
assonance
personification
alliteration
rhyme