Poetry Terms #1

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Across
  1. 3. a word that has the opposite meaning of another word Example: dark is the antonym of light
  2. 5. an extreme and obvious exaggeration, not meant to be taken literally. Example: This test is taking forever.
  3. 6. a word that has the same sound as another word, but a different meaning and spelling.
  4. 8. repeating the same beginning sound in more than two words.
  5. 9. rhythmical patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
  6. 10. avoids using fixed patterns of meter and often also avoids rhymes
Down
  1. 1. a single row of words in a poem
  2. 2. rhyming words at the ends of lines of a poem
  3. 4. the repetition of consonant sounds within nearby words.
  4. 6. a word that has the same spelling and sound as another word, but a different meaning.
  5. 7. rhymes within a line of poetry
  6. 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