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| Question | Answer |
| What is personification? | Describing non-human things as if they were alive or human. Giving non-human things human qualities |
| What is a simile? | Makes comparisons between ideas and objects for a particular purpose. the words; like, or as, are often used. |
| What is a metaphor? | Saying something is something else. It is a more direct comparison between two things. |
| What is alliteration? | The use of the same letter or sound in two or more words that are close together. It is indicated by repeated consonants and suggests a mood or an emotion. |
| What is assonance? | Repetition of vowels in words that are close together. |
| What is symbolism? | This is the use of expressions which represent or recall certain ideas. Symbolic language appeals to our understanding and our imagination. |
| What is imagery? | Visually descriptive or figurative language. |
| What is Onomatopoeia? | The use of words that sound like the action they are representing. |
| What is hyperbole? | Extreme exaggeration. Hyperbole makes the emotion in the poem more easily identifiable because it is another form of emphasis. |
| What is a synonym? | a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language. |
| What is an antonym? | A word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the exact opposite of another word or phrase in the same language. |
| What is ambiguity? | The quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness. When a word has more than one meaning. |
| What is 1st person narration? | A mode whereby a story is a time, speaking fro and about the narrated by one character at a time, speaking for and about themselves. |
| What is 3rd person narration? | A type of narrative in which the story is related by an omniscient narrator, using third-person forms. It is a category used in classifying verbs and personal pronouns that are referring to a third party. |
| What is tone? | It is the way the writer sounds through the writing. It might be annoyed, angry, comic, ironic or sarcastic. |
| What is Pun? | A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings. |
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