Poetry Terms #1
Across
- 3. a word that has the opposite meaning of another word Example: dark is the antonym of light
- 5. an extreme and obvious exaggeration, not meant to be taken literally. Example: This test is taking forever.
- 6. a word that has the same sound as another word, but a different meaning and spelling.
- 8. repeating the same beginning sound in more than two words.
- 9. rhythmical patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
- 10. avoids using fixed patterns of meter and often also avoids rhymes
Down
- 1. a single row of words in a poem
- 2. rhyming words at the ends of lines of a poem
- 4. the repetition of consonant sounds within nearby words.
- 6. a word that has the same spelling and sound as another word, but a different meaning.
- 7. rhymes within a line of poetry
- 9. a figure of speech where a thing is described as being something else in order to suggest a similarity between the two. Example: all the world’s a stage