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What is onomatopoeia?

A type of food.
Saying something is like something else.
A word which expresses a sound.
A number of lines in a stanza.

2

What is enjambment?

The continuation of a sentence without a pause, in a sentence which continues onto the next line.
A piece of punctuation in the middle of a line.
A type of star.
A poetic device.

3

What is a Caesura?

Saying something is something.
Imagery.
It's French.
A pause in the middle of a line using punctuation.

4

What is a metaphor?

Saying something is like something.
Saying something is broken.
Saying something is something else.
Saying something is as something.

5

What is a simile?

Saying something is like something.
Saying something is something.
Smiling.
Saying something is beautiful.

6

What is personification?

A really hideous person.
Personifying.
A type of person.
Giving an inanimate object a human attribute.

7

What is a stanza?

Another word for paragraph in a poem.
Indentation.
Lines.
The breaking up of rhythm.

8

What is a rhetorical question?

When the teacher asks you an annoying question.
When I daydream looking out the window in class
Asking a question to make the reader think rather than answer.
When my friend asks me about my day in the middle of a lesson.

9

What is imagery?

Something ugly.
Something great.
Something beautiful.
Using words to create an image in the readers mind.

10

What is a theme?

An idea or subject that recurs in literature.
A type of poem.
The theme tune.
What my super sweet 16 birthday party is going to be centred around.

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