Poetic Terms
Across
- 1. Special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand.
- 5. A word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.
- 7. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Down
- 2. The use of such words for rhetorical effect.
- 3. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
- 4. A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
- 6. (in the mythology of some Australian Aboriginals) The “golden age” when the first ancestors were created.
- 8. Inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times; indigenous.