Poetry Terms

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Across
  1. 2. a play on words
  2. 3. word or expression used instead of saying something unpleasant
  3. 4. a phrase combining two terms that seem to be opposites
  4. 5. giving human characteristics to an animal
  5. 8. word or phrase that suggests something else
  6. 9. repetition of vowel sounds
  7. 11. a traditional type of poem with a particualar format
Down
  1. 1. words which sound like the thing they are describing
  2. 3. the idea of one line is continued in the next line
  3. 5. repetition of words beginning with the same sound or letter
  4. 6. giving human qualities to non-human things
  5. 7. indirect comparison
  6. 10. a direct comparison using 'like' or 'as'