Australian Poetry

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Across
  1. 1. Beat or pulse of a poem
  2. 7. Deliberate reuse of words or phrases
  3. 9. Matching end sounds in words
  4. 11. The wind whispered through the trees
  5. 12. Direct comparison stating one thing is another
  6. 13. Author of Faces in the Street
  7. 15. Author of My Country
  8. 16. Contrast between expectation and reality
Down
  1. 2. Exaggeration for effect
  2. 3. Poet of The Man from Snowy River
  3. 4. Play on words
  4. 5. Giving weather human emotions
  5. 6. Comparison using like or as
  6. 8. Repeated initial consonant sounds
  7. 10. Language appealing to the senses
  8. 14. Group of lines in a poem