Poetry Terms

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Across
  1. 1. the repetition of consonant sounds across a series of words ("Willows lilt loudly in the blowing gusts")
  2. 3. a six-line stanza
  3. 7. or English sonnet a 14-line poem made up of three quatrains and a couplet, with the volta at line 13
  4. 8. when the speaker of a poem addresses an absent person or addresses an inanimate quality as if it were a person ("O Death, where is thy sting?")
  5. 10. a shift in direction within a poem (a shift in subject, attitude, tone, voice, etc.)
  6. 11. a tangible object, person, place in a text that represents abstract ideas
  7. 13. rhyme words whose sounds match on more than one syllable (fashion and passion)
  8. 14. monologue a poem in which the speaker is a distinct character, usually addressing a listener within the dramatic situation of the poem itself
  9. 17. language that vividly depicts sensory experience (taste, touch, smell, sight, hearing)
  10. 20. a poem that focuses on telling a story
  11. 22. rhyme words whose sounds match on only one syllable (tree and philosophy)
  12. 24. rhyme words whose sounds almost rhyme but not quite (dangerous and hostages)
  13. 25. a poem that communicates the feelings, thoughts, and experiences of a speaker
  14. 26. diction words that depict tangible things (dog, tree, nose)
Down
  1. 2. a poem in the form of an address to a particular subject (often in praise of a person, animal, object, or concept)
  2. 4. a poem reflecting on the death or end of someone or something
  3. 5. a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that repeats throughout a poem
  4. 6. a four-line stanza
  5. 9. or Italian sonnet a 14-line poem made up of an octave and a sestet, with the volta at line 9
  6. 11. a figure of speech in which a writer declares that something is LIKE/AS something different ("Bob is like a monkey on the dancefloor")
  7. 12. when a writer gives inhuman things human characteristics ("The waves marched onto the shore")
  8. 15. a two-line stanza
  9. 16. an eight-line stanza
  10. 18. a figure of speech in which a writer declares that something IS something different ("Sarah is a clown in class")
  11. 19. the repetition of the opening sounds of words ("Sally sells seashells down by the seashore")
  12. 21. the repetition of vowel sounds across a series of words ("He hid and bit his fist in the strong wind")
  13. 23. diction words that depict intangible things (freedom, anger, beauty)