Poetry terms
Across
- 2. conveys emotion
- 3. comparison using like or as,
- 4. 14 line poem in iambic pentameter, "from Anactoria"
- 6. the use of non-vowels that are repeated, ghost guessed ("Spring and Fall")
- 7. use of stressed and unstressed syllables to create a beat- one stressed one unstressed (Sonnet 43)
- 9. something that has a literal meaning in a poem but can be interpreted to have a different meaning; thrush in Darkling Thrush
- 12. comparison without like or as
- 17. poem that tells a story
- 19. running over one poetic line to the next
- 20. author's intentions behind writing
- 21. poetry using stressed and unstressed syllable, iambic pentameter (sonnets)
- 23. sarcasm
- 24. word choice
- 25. reader's feelings about a poem
- 28. one stressed syllable, two unstressed
- 29. repeating vowel sounds
Down
- 1. opposites for emphasis, sonnet 43 compares the candle to the sun
- 5. arrangement of a poem's elements
- 8. perspective the poem is told by, duchess 1st, shallot, the third person
- 10. section of the poem
- 11. similar/repeated words, sentences, phrases, and clauses in a poem
- 13. words are repeated with the same first letter
- 14. poem written from an individual's perspective, The Last Duchess
- 15. recurring words, phrases, or clauses in a poem, "Half a league, half a league..."
- 16. interruption/break in a poetic line
- 18. author's attitude in writing a poem
- 22. central idea, isolation in the Lady of shallot
- 26. reference to a famous work, Neptune in My Last Duchess
- 27. single line of the poem, "there she weaves by night and day"