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- Q 1/16Score 0What is the repetition of the beginning sound of two or more words in a sentence?29alliteration
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- Q1What is the repetition of the beginning sound of two or more words in a sentence?alliteration120s
- Q2What is comparing two unlike things saying one thing IS the other?metaphorpersonificationsimilehyperbole45s
- Q3What is the term that means exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally?consonanceonomatopoeiahyperbolealliteration45s
- Q4What is a group of lines (usually 4 or more)?simileconsonancerhyme schemestanza45s
- Q5What is the use of vivid description rich in sensory (touch, taste, smell, sight, sound) words to create a picture in a reader's mind?imagery60s
- Q6What is a phrase that compares two unlike things using like or as?metaphorhyperbolealliterationsimile45s
- Q7What is the term that means giving human qualities or characteristics to something not human?personification120s
- Q8a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or soundrhythmhyperboleconsonancesimile45s
- Q9the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, oink )metaphorconsonanceonomatopoeiaalliteration45s
- Q10the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.tonesimilesensory detailsrhythm45s
- Q11Writers use the five senses (sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste) to engage a reader's interest. This is called .......sensory details120s
- Q12The narrator of a poem is called the .........speaker60s
- Q13The repetition of similar sounds (or the same sound) in two or more words, most often in the final syllables of lines in poems and songsrhyme45s
- Q14the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poemrhythmrhymerimerhyme scheme45s
- Q15something that represents something elsesymbolmetaphorsimileimagery45s
