POETRY 3

Question 1

metaphor

Answer 1

a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else (laughter is the best medicine, is there a black sheep in your family?)

Question 2

simile

Answer 2

comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind (using as or like) (as cold as ice)

Question 3

personification

Answer 3

giving a human characteristics to something non-human (lightning danced)

Question 4

assonance

Answer 4

resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words (the sound of hounds)

Question 5

consonance

Answer 5

rhe recurrance of similar-sounding consonants in close proximity (lapping up his dripping iron)

Question 6

rhetorical question

Answer 6

asked in order to create a dramatic effect rather than to get an answer

Question 7

hyperbole

Answer 7

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally (her brain is the size of a pea)

Question 8

rhyming

Answer 8

ending with a sound that corresponds to another

Question 9

onomatopoeia

Answer 9

a word from a sound associated with what is named (the dog barked)

Question 10

alliteration

Answer 10

the same letter or sound at the befinning of adjacent or closely connected words (sheep should sleep in a shed

Question 11

irony

Answer 11

stating something by saying the opposite (what a sense of humour you have)

Question 12

imagery

Answer 12

vivid or descriptive language which describes an experience of the senses (seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, smelling or feeling)

Question 13

symbol

Answer 13

a material object that represents something immaterial or abstract

Question 14

denotation

Answer 14

primary meaning of the word

Question 15

connotation

Answer 15

secondary meaning (‘‘flavour’’ of the word, carrying an extra emotional meaning)