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title: Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · English
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 46 «Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration» of the English course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration

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The 15 questions of lesson 46 «Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration» of the English course of Mova's primary school with their options, 85 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/t1/) — Your mate says, "Metaphors are just lies, innit, the sun ain't a coin." Put him right. — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/t2/) — Kenzie, Gen Alpha: "'The thunder growled' is a simile, no cap." ("No cap" means no lie.) What is it really? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/t3/) — What would happen to "The sun is a golden coin" if you put "like" after "is"? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/t4/) — A cartoon teacher says "Boom!" is alliteration. Fix it. — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/t5/) — Which line uses alliteration? — right ✓ · ★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/t6/) — "Shut up, the wind can't scream, it ain't got a mouth," snaps Ryan. What is the poet doing? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/t7/) — Gran in Cardiff: "That poem's lush, bach." ("Lush" means lovely; "bach" is a fond Welsh word, like "dear".) Which line from it is a simile? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/t8/) — Ella's poem has twenty similes in eight lines. What would a teacher most likely say? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/t9/) — Which pair is matched correctly? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/t10/) — In "The moon smiled down on the silver sea", which devices are used? — right ✓ · ★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/t11/) — "The leaves danced like dizzy dancers." Which of simile, personification and alliteration does it use? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/e1/) — Identify the literary device whereby two dissimilar entities are compared through the explicit use of the words "like" or "as". — right ✓ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/e2/) — Select the response that most accurately characterises the line "The city is a beast at night." — right ✓ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/e3/) — It is given that a poet attributes human actions to an inanimate object (a thing that is not alive). State the name of the device so employed. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/e4/) — Ascertain which of the following constitutes onomatopoeia rather than alliteration. — wrong ✗ · exam

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