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Poetry and Handsome Young Man
The Academic Arab College for Education
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INTRODUCTION TO POETRY EXAMINATION

A (4) AND A (14) / SEMESTER A 2014
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Name of Student (1) _______________________________________

ID Number: ______________________________________________

Class : A ( )

Name of Student (2) _______________________________________

ID Number: ______________________________________________ ID : ______________________________________________________

Class: A ( )
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Part One:

A. Match the following poetic terms and figure of speech with the sentences that follow:

1.
2. Apostrophe
3. Assonance
4. Consonance
5. Epithet
6. Hyperbole
7. Irony
8. Metonymy
9. Onomatopoeia
10. Simile
11. Synecdoche
1) Personification is all about adding a human trait to an inanimate object or an abstraction.

2) A Metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two unrelated things or ideas using "like" or "as".

3) A __________________ compares two different or unrelated things to reveal certain new qualities in the subject.

4) Alliteration is the duplication of a specific consonant sound at the start of each word and in quick succession.

5) A ________________ is an over exaggerated description or sentence.

6) _________________ is used to replicate sounds created by objects, actions, animals and people.

7) A allusion refers to the use of an object to represent or indicate something else or an idea.

8) ______________________ is a repetition of the vowel sounds.

9) An _________________ is an indirect or subtle reference made about a person, place or thing in a work of literature.

10) An _____________________ is used when a person who is absent or nonexistent is spoken to.

11) A __________________ is a figure of speech where one word or phrase is used in

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