Poetic Terms

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Across
  1. 1. Special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand.
  2. 5. A word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.
  3. 7. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Down
  1. 2. The use of such words for rhetorical effect.
  2. 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.
  3. 4. A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
  4. 6. (in the mythology of some Australian Aboriginals) The “golden age” when the first ancestors were created.
  5. 8. Inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times; indigenous.