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Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.

Flowers withering
beneath the weight of the sun.
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What term best applies to this line: "The wind screamed [against] my window that February night"?
metaphor
personification
consonance
simile
The following sentence is an example of what? "If I fail this final, my father with flip out!"
D assonance
B alliteration
A hyperbole
C consonance
The pattern of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables is called...
D assonance
B rhyme
C meter
A rhythm
"The man was a mountain." This sentence is the best example of what?
B metaphor
A simile
C imagery
Words that appeal to the reader's senses and create word pictures
A personification
D metaphor
B imagery
C imagination
Her eyes are blue like the ocean. This is an example of ____________________________________.
B metaphor
A alliteration
C personification
D simile
the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
A alliteration
D repetition
C hyperbole
B simile
My sister ate 100 gallons of cookie dough ice cream when her special someone broke her heart.
D hyperbole
B personification
A metaphor
C imagery
My computer growled at me when I hit the wrong button.
B simile
C personification
D hyperbole
A metaphor
The German Shepard (dog) was lightning fast.
A simile
D onomatopoeia
C personification
B metaphor
the use of words whose sounds echo their meaning
D alliteration
B metaphor
A simile
C onomatopoeia
Line #3 is an example of what type of figurative language?
B Personification
D Hyperbole
A Simile
C Metaphor
What term would you choos when coming across this line, "The soft sound of the sea soothed my troubled soul"?
Euphemism
Alliteration
assonance
onomatopeia
When two words sound the same, especially at the end of each line, as is "He shall no longer be/a visitor to the sea", what do we call this device?
Consonance
Aliliteration
Rhyme
Personification
"This summer day is like sweet music" is an example of what device?
personification
metaphor
onomatopeia
simile
"Her love for him was a campaign of ignorance" would be considered as what kind of poetic device?
simile
rhythm
metaphor
personification
The following are examples of this device: "boom" "buzz" and "crunch". What term I am referring to?
Consonance
Onomatopia
Alliteration
Assonance
If I wrote the line "The ship was in distress upon the livid sea", I would be using which poetic device?
Consonance
Meter
Assonance
Rhythm
What term is used to describe the conjunction of two words that seem to contradict each other, like 'good grief'?
Metaphor
Personification
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
What do you call the pattern that a poem follows, labeled with letters, i.e. AABBCCDD?
Lines
Rhyme Scheme
Sonnet
Hyperbole
Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground
metaphor
antithesis
simile
Personification
What happens during assonance?
repeition of vowel sounds
repetition of words
repetition of consonant sounds
repetition of phrases
What is Imagery?
Writing that uses descriptive details to create pictures in readers' minds.
Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.
A comparison of two things that are usually considered unalike using the work "like" or "as."
A comparison of two things that are usually considered unalike that says one thing "is" the other.
Which of the following is an example of onomatopoeia?
A Connor cooked cupcakes with coconut sprinkles.
B BOOM!!! CRASH!!!!
C My bookbag weighs 1000 lbs.
D The door flew off its hinges.
An alliteration is when the beginning consonant sound is repeated to add effect. Identify the example of alliteration.
C You are as quiet as a mouse.
D Sally sells seashell by the seashore.
B The thunder crashed through the forest.
A My sister ate at least 100 gallons of cookies and cream ice cream when her boyfriend broke up with her.
"The man was a mountain." This sentence is the best example of what?
A simile
B metaphor
C imagery
__________________ is the deliberate repetition of words or sentence structures for effect.
Hyperbole
Repetition
Personification
__________________ is the repetition of initial consonant sounds
Personification
Simile
Alliteration
__________________ is descriptive or figurative language that creates word pictures for the reader.
Imagery
Personification
Metaphor
A(n) __________________ is the use of over-exaggeration to create emphasis or humor.
Imagery
Alliteration
Hyperbole
__________________ is giving non-living objects or animals humanlike characteristics.
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Personification
Which would be the best defintion for allusion?
a figure of speech that compares two things NOT using like or as
a figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person or event
a figure of speech that gives himan characteristics to something non-human
a figure of speech that compares two things using like or as
"She's a good swimmer, but she's no Ariel." is an example of
Hyperbole
Simile
Allusion
Assosance