Elements of Poetry
Across
- 6. The formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referrent.
- 9. the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them meanings that are different from their literal sense.
- 12. Which device is, "The tree is like the God of the forest"?
- 14. A Japanese poem with three lines that does not rhyme and explores the theme of nature.
- 16. Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular rhythm.
- 18. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
- 20. A stanza with three lines.
- 23. Rhyming of the final words of lines in a poem.
- 24. The action of repeating something that has already been said or written.
Down
- 1. A type of literature that expresses ideas and feelings using lines and stanzas.
- 2. A pair of successive lines of verse, typically rhyming and of the same length.
- 3. The writer's attitude or feelings about what he or she is writing about.
- 4. The use of words to create pictures, or images in one's mind.
- 5. Poems have a musical rhythm, and their topics often explore romantic feelings or other strong emotions.
- 7. is a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes.
- 8. Assonance, Consonance, Repetition, Rhyme are all examples of?
- 9. A group of lines in a poem.
- 10. The atmosphere, or emotion, in the poem created by the poet.
- 11. A stanza with four lines.
- 13. A humurous, five line poem.
- 15. The speaker/persona in a poem.
- 17. A poem consisting of fourteen lines usually written in iambic pentameter.
- 19. A short lyric poem that praises an individual, an idea, or an event.
- 21. The flow of the beat in a poem.
- 22. A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.