Poetry Vocabulary
Across
- 3. Words that show how the speaker feels about his or her topic
- 5. Painting a picture in the reader's mind using sensory details
- 8. An emotional or social connection with a word
- 9. The appearance of the words on the page
- 10. Words that rhyme inside the same line
- 12. Using is/am/are/was/were/be to compare two unlike things
- 14. A group of words on a line
- 16. The pattern of rhyming words in a poem
- 18. A type of literature that expresses ideas and feelings in a specific form
- 20. A reference to a well-known symbol, idea, character, etc.
Down
- 1. Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of a word
- 2. Words that represent sound
- 4. Extreme exaggeration
- 6. Words that rhyme at the end of a line
- 7. A group of lines in a poem
- 10. A saying or phrase that does not translate literally (ex: It's raining cats and dogs.)
- 11. The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem
- 13. Assigning human characteristics to non-human things
- 15. Words that almost rhyme, but not quite
- 17. The dictionary definition of a word
- 19. Using like or as to compare two unlike things