Poetry Terminology Review
Across
- 2. Recurring pattern of stresses and pauses in a poem
- 4. Comparison btwn 2 unlike things using a form of "to be"
- 5. Addressing something invisible or not usu. spoken to
- 8. What the poem is "about"
- 9. repetition of near or identical sounds at the ends of words
- 12. Contains one stressed and one unstressed syllable
- 13. Comparison btwn 2 unlike things using like, as, resembles
- 15. Discrepancy between what is said and what is meant
- 17. Word choice
- 19. Associations words carry apart from literal meaning
- 21. The fixed rhythm in a poem
- 22. A part of a thing stands for the whole
- 24. The name of the thing stands for the thing itself
- 25. Brief reference in a poem to a person, place, or thing
- 26. Bitter irony intended to hurt or mock its target
Down
- 1. Dictionary or literal meanings of words
- 3. Contains one stressed and one unstressed syllable
- 6. A thing or animal is given human characteristics
- 7. Type of poetry whose purpose is to tell a story
- 10. Exaggeration for effect
- 11. Two seemingly contradictory ideas that actually make sense
- 14. Words that refer to what we can perceive with senses
- 16. Author's attitude toward the material
- 18. Central idea of a poem stated as a complete sentence
- 20. Words that express ideas or concepts
- 23. Poetry designed to express feelings of a single speaker