Understanding Poetry

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Across
  1. 4. Using words or phrases more than once for emphasis or rhythm.
  2. 6. The beliefs or principles that matter to a person or group.
  3. 10. Words that sound the same at the end (like cat/hat or sing/ring).
  4. 11. To look at something closely to understand it better.
Down
  1. 1. Ideas that people think are true.
  2. 2. How a poem is set up, including lines, stanzas, and rhyme patterns.
  3. 3. A type of writing that shows ideas or feelings in a creative way, often using rhyme or rhythm.
  4. 5. Descriptive words that help you imagine things using your senses (sight, sound, touch, taste, smell).
  5. 7. A group of lines in a poem, like a paragraph in a story.
  6. 8. Everyday writing or speaking that is not poetry.
  7. 9. The rhythm of beats or stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem.