Poetry Analysis

Question 1

What is onomatopeia?

Accepted Answer

"the waterfall crashed into the deep pool", When a word sounds like the thing is is or does

Question 2

What is a metaphor?

Accepted Answer

When two unrelated things are compared to each other., "She is a walking dictionary", "that was a real page turner!"

Question 3

What is personification?

Accepted Answer

When human traits are given to non-human things or animals, "The chair groaned under his weight"

Question 4

What poetic device is this: "The struggle with the elements is everlasting war".

Accepted Answer

Metaphor and hyperbole, Metaphor

Question 5

What is this "water plops into pond: splish-splash downhill, warbling magpies in tree trilling"

Accepted Answer

Onomatapoeia, Alliteration and Onomatapoeai

Question 6

What is hyperbole?

Accepted Answer

That was absolutely THE most DISGUSTING, FOUL thing... EVER!, When something is exagerated!

Question 7

What is rhyme?

Accepted Answer

When two or more words have similar sounds., When lines in poems have corresponding sounds ., Two lines whose sounds match.

Question 8

Are songs poems?

Accepted Answer

Yes

Question 9

Spot the device: "Where a horse's hoofs strike firelight from the flint stones every stride"

Accepted Answer

Alliteration

Question 10

Spot the poetry device: "Of this fifth part of the Earth, Which would seem an after-birth"

Accepted Answer

rhyme

Question 11

What is hyperbole?

Accepted Answer

When something is exagerated!, That was absolutely THE most DISGUSTING, FOUL thing... EVER!

Question 12

What is alliteration?

Accepted Answer

When the same letter or sound is repeated close together, sizzling BBQ in the sweltering summer, animated aliens argue

Question 13

What is a simile?

Accepted Answer

When two things are compared., a poetic device used in many poems., your smile is like a warm summer day,

It's related to a metaphor.

Question 14

I'd catch a grenade for you, throw my hand on a blade for you, jump in front of a train for you

Accepted Answer

This song uses hyperbole, This song uses repetition and hyperbole

Question 15

Spot the poetic device: "The old man with his hair as white as snow"

Accepted Answer

Simile

Question 16

What is repetition?

Accepted Answer

When a word or phrase reoccurs throughout a poem or song., When a word is used multiple times in a poem., When the same line is used in the chorus of a song.

Question 17

This is: "Royal March of the Lion:The lion is the king of beasts, and husband of the lioness"

Accepted Answer

Personification

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Poetry Analysis

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