Poetry Terms Review
Across
- 2. repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
- 5. the way the words look in a poem
- 6. the way an author uses word choice
- 9. language, language that is not meant to be taken literally
- 12. words that imitate the sounds they make
- 15. a group of lines arranged together in a poem
- 19. scheme, a pattern of rhyme within the lines of poetry
- 20. language that appeals to the five sense
- 21. words that sound alike because they share the same vowel ending and consonant sounds
- 23. the atmosphere or emotional feeling an author attempts to create
- 24. the author of a poem
Down
- 1. giving non humans human-like qualities
- 3. the author's attitude towards a subject
- 4. a phrase regularly repeated in a poem
- 7. the "narrator" of the poem
- 8. a comparison of two unlike things using like or as
- 10. rhyme, a word at the end of a line of poetry rhymes with a word at the end of another line
- 11. literature that expresses ideas and feelings in the form of lines and stanzas
- 13. rhyme, a word inside a line of poetry rhymes with another word in the same line
- 14. a group of words arranged together
- 16. rhyme, imperfect or close rhyme (i.e., ROSE and LOSE)
- 17. extreme exaggeration used for emphasis
- 18. the beat created by the sounds of words in a poem
- 20. an expression where the literal meaning of the words doesn't make sense
- 22. a direct comparison of unlike things (usually uses verbs like is, was, are)