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Question 1

What is a simile.

Answer 1

A simile is a comparison between two words bybusing as or like.
Example:My sister is like a pig

Question 2

What is a metaphore

Answer 2

A metaphore is a phrase where it is not litteral and is to show what its like similar to a simile but you would say it is rather than like or as.
Example:My sister IS a pig

Question 3

What is a caesura

Answer 3

A caesura is a break in a ryhme in the poem or a break in a metrical line.
Example:It is you we speak for||not for ourselves.

Question 4

What is enjambement

Answer 4

the continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next.
Example:the good,morrow

Question 5

What is tone and tonal shift.

Answer 5

Tone is what type of poem it is such a comedy,drama,romance and so on and the tonal shift is what makes the reader go through a wide range of emotions.

Question 6

What is iambic pentameter

Answer 6

Iambic pentameter is something pleasing to the ear like a heartbeat like you hear every day.
Example:Batter my heart three-personed God.

Question 7

What is personification.

Answer 7

Personification is when you bring a non living item to life.
Example:The alarmclock screemed for him to wake up.

Question 8

What is aliteration.

Answer 8

Aliteration is the saming beggining letter of connecting words.
Example:smelly socks.

Question 9

What is rhyme scheme

Answer 9

The ordered patters of rhymes.
Example:AABB,ABAB

Question 10

What is rhythm.

Answer 10

the measured flow of words and phrases in verse or prose as determined by the relation of long and short or stressed and unstressed syllables.

Question 11

What is repetition

Answer 11

Repetition is like aliteration but it is the same words connected in a phrase.
Example:Move Move Move Move!

Question 12

What is onomatopoeia?

Answer 12

onomatopoeia is when you make a sound in a text to show what has happened.
Example:in the distance i heard something.BOOM!

Question 13

What is slang

Answer 13

Slang is when your writing is informal.
Example:spill the tea

Question 14

What is colloquial language?

Answer 14

characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal. involving or using conversation.
Example:y’all” or “gonna” or “wanna”.

Question 15

Nonsecical language is..?

Answer 15

Gibberish, also called jibber-jabber or gobbledygook, is speech that is (or appears to be) nonsense.

Question 16

What is hyperbole?

Answer 16

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
Example:I’ve seen this movie a hundred times,” or “It cost an arm and a leg.”