Poetic Terms
Across
- 4. He sat still as a mouse, hoping that whatever it was might go away.
- 5. I'm going to die of embarrassment
- 8. the way that the speaker or narrator feels about a subject
- 10. Rain pitter-patters, drip-drops, and rat-a-tats on the tin roof.
- 13. The tired old car coughed and wheezed down the street.
- 15. the repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds.
- 17. a fourteen line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme
- 18. ________ are the poetry what paragraphs are to prose
Down
- 1. The pattern of rhymes in a poem; AABBCC ; ACAB ; ABAC
- 2. The blustery breeze blew my blues away.
- 3. In The Lord of the Rings, the One Ring is a _________ for power, selfishness, and greed.
- 6. poetry that does not rhyme
- 7. Parting is such sweet sorrow/That I shall say good night till it be morrow
- 9. Religion, art, and science are branches of the same tree
- 11. the overall feeling or atmosphere of a piece of literature
- 12. a reference to a popular or well-known work, like Shakespeare or the Bible
- 14. using sensory language to conjure images in the reader's mind
- 16. the unit of rhythm or the pattern of the beats in poetry