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