Poetic Devices and Terms

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Across
  1. 4. Use of words resembling the sounds they mean
  2. 5. Poet's distinctive choices in vocabulary
  3. 8. The way a poem looks
  4. 9. The recurrence of a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
  5. 12. Internal 'feel' of beat and meter perceived when poetry is read aloud
  6. 13. Deliberate repetition of initial consonant sounds,
  7. 15. when someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive
  8. 16. Concise or witty saying “An apple a day keeps the doctor away"
  9. 17. Repetition of consonant sounds, e.g., “The chalk fell into the crack in the rock.”
  10. 20. A seeming contradiction in two words put together
  11. 21. Exaggeration for dramatic effect e.g. "This book weighs a ton"
  12. 25. Giving an animal or object human qualities or motives
Down
  1. 1. The message about life that the poem conveys
  2. 2. A seemingly contradictory statement
  3. 3. Language, words/phrases that help the reader picture ordinary things in new ways (ex. Simile)
  4. 6. Words and phrases that appeal to the five senses
  5. 7. Verse, Poems that do not have a regular rhythm and sound more like conversation
  6. 10. Words that end with the same sound
  7. 11. Scheme, The pattern of rhymes in a stanza in a poem
  8. 14. Deliberate repetition of identical/similar vowel sound,
  9. 18. A comparison of two unlike things using "as" or "like"
  10. 19. Repeating sounds, words, phrases, or whole lines in a poem
  11. 22. The stanza that keeps on repeating after some lines in a poem
  12. 23. A comparison of two unlike things not using “as” or “like”
  13. 24. Dominant feeling the poet feel towards the subject