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Poetry 9
Final exam notes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Poem | An arrangement of words, a rhythmical composition, sometimes rhymed, in a language more imaginative than ordinary speech. |
| Poet | One who expresses himself with beauty of thought and language more imaginative than ordinary speech |
| Alliteration | The repetition of initial or first consonant sounds. |
| Repetition | It is the repeating of a key word, phrase, or line of a poem in order to emphasize its importance to the reader. |
| Onomatopoeia | It is also called imitative harmony. It is the use of words that in themselves sound like what they are describing. |
| Metaphor | It is the comparison between two unlike things which have one likeness in common. It is a comparison that is suggested or implied rather than stated. |
| Simile | It is the comparison of two unlike things using the words like, as or than. |
| Personnification |