Poetic Techniques
Across
- 2. creates a picture in our minds
- 5. a grouped set of lines in a poem like a paragraph
- 8. sound words like buzz, whizz
- 11. comparison using 'like' or 'as'
- 12. object given human characteristics
- 14. couplet two consecutive lines that rhyme
Down
- 1. devices examples are rhyme, alliteration, assonance
- 3. Repetition of similar vowel sounds
- 4. scheme eg ABAB, ABBA
- 5. a word that has a similar eaning as another word
- 6. symbolic meaning; feelings or ideas evoked
- 7. repeated words or phrases for emaphasis
- 9. Repetition of consonant sounds
- 10. comparison; described as being something else
- 13. words that sound the same at ends of lines