AP Lit Terms Review

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Across
  1. 2. A quiet echo that grows louder with repetition
  2. 3. The skeleton holding language upright
  3. 8. What the room feels like, even when nothing is happening
  4. 10. The writer’s attitude behind the words
  5. 12. A lie told so well it reveals the truth
  6. 15. When words whisper the same opening sound
  7. 16. A truth that wears contradiction as a disguise
  8. 17. Twins that are complete opposites placed side by side
  9. 19. (Volta) The instant a poem shifts its footing
  10. 20. The fingerprint of word choice
Down
  1. 1. When the lifeless borrows a pulse
  2. 4. A drumbeat at the beginning, again and again
  3. 5. A sentence that continues onto the next line without stopping
  4. 6. structure A tight box where arguments bloom and pivot before escape
  5. 7. Putting two very different things next to each other for effect
  6. 9. structure A poet haunted by their own lines, unable to let them go
  7. 11. Language that glides instead of grates
  8. 13. irony The audience sits in on a secret the characters can’t hear
  9. 14. pentameter A poem's pulse you don’t notice until it stops
  10. 18. irony The universe delivering the punchline you didn’t expect