Poetry Terminology Crossword

3. A type of music of African American origin in which rhythmic and usually rhyming speech is chanted to a musical accompaniment.
5. The voice or persona that narrates the poem.
9. A comparison that makes an implied or hidden connection between two ideas.
12. A competitive form of performance poetry where poets perform original, often emotional, works, with the audience also serving as judges.
13. The central subject matter or idea that the poem explores.
14. A distinct genre of poetry rooted in the experiences and traditions of the American West.
15. A universal idea, lesson, or message and is explored throughout a work of literature.
16. A type of poetry that involves erasing words from an existing text to create a new poem.
17. Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words.
19. A word that sounds like the noise it describes.
20. A person who writes poems.

1. A group of words in poetry arranged into a row that ends for a reason other than the right-hand margin.
2. "That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a ____________."
4. Words within a sentence or phrase, which contains rhyming vowels in the middle.
6. A division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme.
7. The feelings and moods evoked in the reader through the poet's skillful use of language, imagery, rhythm, and other poetic devices.
8. A direct comparison between two ideas using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’.
10. Uses the same word or phrase over and over again in a piece of writing or speech.
11. The repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in succession.
18. Language that stimulates the reader's senses by describing touch, taste, sound, smell, and sight.