Poetry Terms

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Across
  1. 3. - over exaggerated sentences or terms
  2. 5. - the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
  3. 7. - a figure of speech comparing two things that are not alike
  4. 9. - giving human qualities to nonhuman objects or things
  5. 10. - the repetition of similar sounds as consonants
  6. 12. - the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing
Down
  1. 1. Scheme - the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
  2. 2. - an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly
  3. 4. - words that describe sound
  4. 6. - words or sentences that invoke the five senses (sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell)
  5. 8. - the repetition of the sound of a vowel
  6. 11. - a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables , in three lines of five, seven, and five; traditionally evoking images of the natural world