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Poetic Devices

10 Questions - Developed by: Adam McManus - Developed on: 2019-03-14 - 1.242 taken

1

What is onomatopoeia?

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

2

What is enjambment?

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

3

What is a Caesura?

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

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?

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

6

What is personification?

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

7

What is a stanza?

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

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

10

What is a theme?

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

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