Comparing Poems
Across
- 3. to hold on tightly with thumb and forefinger.
- 5. someone who stops or waits before doing something.
- 6. a difficult choice.
- 11. when someone talks to another person.
- 13. when a poem has the same number of lines in each stanza.
- 14. a very clear and detailed image that is like it is alive and there with you.
- 17. the size of a football field
- 19. the groups of lines a poem is divided into.
- 22. when you say what is happening now.
- 24. really want something badly.
- 26. how the ideas of the poem are arranged.
- 28. Both sons in MAD and WA both want this.
- 29. a soft material which can be moulded,goes hard when it is fire.
- 30. means to look.
- 31. the person who tells the story.
Down
- 1. show that the relationship is paused and they are not sure what will happen next.
- 2. when a birds egg cracks and a chick is born.
- 4. what someone feels, thinks or says about something.
- 7. grasslands that stretch for hundreds of miles.
- 8. MAD is about and adult son________ WA is about a son as a child
- 9. means to think back in time.
- 10. knowledge that you get which is not in the actual poem.
- 12. a bird that has wings but cannot fly yet.
- 15. happening now.
- 16. to look back.
- 18. what words like span,acres, prairies and space are about.
- 20. punctuation which represents a break in the son's and mother's relationship
- 21. which represents something else.
- 23. type of metaphor like span, acre, prairies, space.
- 25. the distance between your outstretched arms.
- 27. it means back.
- 28. when a poem does not have regular structure.