Elements of Prose and Poetry

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Across
  1. 5. a group of lines in a poem.
  2. 8. a problem that must be solved; an issue between the protagonist and antagonist forces. It forms the basis of the plot.
  3. 12. a word or phrase that softens an uncomfortable topic.
  4. 13. hint or clue about what will happen in story
  5. 15. the beat, sound, and feel of a poem.
  6. 16. a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
  7. 18. a statement that appears to contradict itself but upon further inspection reveals a deeper truth, meaning, or joke.
  8. 19. a single row of words in a poem.
  9. 20. a truth, lesson, or message about life.
  10. 21. refers to who is the narrator or speaker in the poem.
  11. 22. the language (vocabulary) used in poetry.
  12. 24. the use of irony in order to mock or convey contempt toward a person or subject.
  13. 26. the organized pattern or sequence of events that make up a story.
  14. 27. used when something represents or stands for something else.
  15. 28. the ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns such as phrases, clauses, and sentences.
  16. 29. the way the poet has organized the poem on the page. For example, number of stanzas, lines per stanza, breaks in between lines and stanzas.
  17. 31. the angle through which a story is told. It is the writer's way of deciding who is telling the story to whom.
  18. 32. the continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next
Down
  1. 1. one who tells a story.
  2. 2. the poet's attitude toward the poem's speaker, reader, and subject matter
  3. 3. words the poet uses to appeal to our senses (sight, touch, smell, sound and taste).
  4. 4. a scenario or expression that is used excessively, to the point that it is considered unoriginal.
  5. 5. the “where and when” of a story. It is the time and place during which the story takes place.
  6. 6. a figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings, like “old news,” “deafening silence,” or “organized chaos.”
  7. 7. the name of an object or concept is replaced with a word closely related to or suggested by the original, as “crown” to mean “king”
  8. 9. a word or phrase that possesses a separate meaning from its literal definition. It can be metaphor, simile, personification, etc.
  9. 10. the act of creating and describing characters in literature.
  10. 11. a collection of words written to inspire ideas, imagination, or emotions.
  11. 14. means to pronounce clearly.
  12. 17. the number and style of accented syllables in line.
  13. 23. interrupts the normal sequence of events to tell about something that happened in the past.
  14. 24. created by the use of words in a sentence. Sound helps the reader “hear” the poem. The four main common sound devices are repetition, rhyme, alliteration and assonance.
  15. 25. the feeling the poet is trying to convey in the audience.
  16. 28. when a specific part of something is used to refer to the whole thing.
  17. 30. describes words that have the same ending sounds.