Poetry terms

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Across
  1. 2. when a sentence continues onto the next line or stanza
  2. 3. a figure of speech where an absent person, an abstract idea or thing is addressed
  3. 5. sound words
  4. 7. poetry paragraph
  5. 12. giving a non-human object human like characteristics
  6. 13. extreme exaggeration
  7. 14. visual description so the reader can imagine what is going on in the poem/story
  8. 16. person who wrote the poem
  9. 17. a repeating words, phrases, lines or stanza, to emphasise the idea
  10. 18. direct comparison without using like or as
Down
  1. 1. repetition of a consonant in two or more words
  2. 4. the narrator of the poem who is tell the story
  3. 6. the author's attitude about the poems speaker, reader, and subject
  4. 7. direct comparison using like or as
  5. 8. repetition of a vowel in two or more words
  6. 9. underlying message of the poem
  7. 10. a literary streak of text flowing across page
  8. 11. two or more words with similar ending final syllables
  9. 15. the tempo or pace the poem is read
  10. 16. the same letter at the beginning of two or more words