Poetic Terms

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Across
  1. 1. A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
  2. 3. The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
  3. 4. repetition of vowel sounds within word
  4. 6. first letter repetition
  5. 9. describing something as something else
  6. 11. is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.
  7. 12. similarity or likeness of sound existing between two words
Down
  1. 1. metaphor using like or as
  2. 2. repeated consonant sound within words
  3. 5. The action of repeating something.
  4. 7. something described through sight, appears most commonly in poetry.
  5. 8. sound words, Example: BAM! SPLAT! hiss... WHAM! CRASH!
  6. 10. The pattern of the poem's stressed and unstressed syllables (or beats)