Crossword #1
Across
- 4. - When a stanza is two lines it can be called this term. - 7 letters
- 7. - Within this clue there lies a kind of beat, this term describes a beat like this in poems. - 5 letters
- 8. - The rhymes in these lines are both full rhymes and ___ rhymes: “She recognized the seasons by their light/as flowering plants and bushes, keyed to measure/its length, wake briefly or unroll at leisure/beneath it: even when it’s cold, the night” (Hacker, 2002) - 3 letters
- 9. - This device is found in the following line of poetry: "Shook the box like a maraca." (Gerstler, 2015) - 6 letters
- 11. - The first, second, and third of this are the difference between me, you, and them. - 6 letters
- 12. - This form of poem has a number of lines equal to the total number of clues in this crossword. - 6 letters
- 13. - This is a term for the difference between “When I find myself slipping, I hold on/and remember what the canal taught me” and “When I find myself slipping,/I hold on and remember what the canal taught me”. (Humphreys, 2020) - 10 letters
Down
- 1. - __________ language, as opposed to literal language. - 10 letters
- 2. - The family name of sisters who wrote classic English novels such as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. - 6 letters
- 3. - Not “scold and bold”, but instead “scold and bowl” - 10 letters
- 5. - This is a homophone of and relates to consonants (a homophone is a word that sounds the same but has a different meaning). - 10 letters
- 6. - This term applies to novels, short stories, and non-fiction but typically not poetry. - 5 letters
- 7. - This kind of figurative device is used here to describe the woman’s words: “her words spliced into bars/of an old wheel.”. (Kay, 1993) - 8 letters
- 10. - This is a term for the repeating “ee” sounds in this line: “And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming”. (Poe, 1845) - 9 letters