Poetry Literary Vocabulary
Across
- 2. a comparison of two different things using words like or as
- 3. a section of a poem; consists of a line or group of lines
- 5. language that is words or phrases that mean more than their dictionary definition
- 7. when the same form is repeated in a series of lines or stanzas
- 13. the words or subject of a piece of writing
- 14. a poem about the craft of poetry
- 15. the repetition of words at the start of a series of lines in a poem
- 18. describing non-human things as if they had human qualities
- 20. the pattern of repeated rhyming words in a poem
Down
- 1. a poetic form with nineteen lines and a set pattern of repeating lines and rhyming words
- 4. break the place where a line ends
- 6. a four-line stanza
- 8. an indirect reference to an outside work of art or a cultural figure
- 9. a small part of a larger work
- 10. when two words share the same final consonant sound
- 11. writing that addresses a person or thing that is not present
- 12. a figure of speech in which words typically used to describe something else in order to suggest a likeness
- 16. words that end in the same sound or sounds
- 17. the attitude of a piece of writing, expressed through the style of writing and the words the author uses
- 19. the shape, structure, or appearance of a piece of writing
- 21. the bland space that divides two stanzas from each other