Poetry Matching

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Poetry Matching

1. Alliteration
2. Hyperbole
3. Simile
4. Metaphor
5. Imagery
6. Irony
7. Onomatopoeia
8. personification

1. Ten thousand sordid images in my dreams last
   night.
2. The waves crashed upon the shore.
3. The trees waved their arms, warning of the
   dangerous storm approaching.
4. A dream is like a river.
5. Last night the firehouse burned to the ground.
6. Tick, tock, the time ticked on.
7. The smell of cocoa butter and salt- a vacation at
   the beach.
8. Life is a dance, you learn as you go.

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Poetry Matching How well did you listen to the
video?

1. Oxymoron
2. Denotation
3. connotation
4. Allusion
5. Sentimentality
6. Understatement

1. Overly emotional language.
2. Attitudes associated with a word.
3. Opposite of hyperbole.
4. Pairing of words that have contradictory
   meanings.
5. Reference to something well known in culture.
6. Dictionary definition of a word.