Poetry Vocabulary
Across
- 8. Is the last six lines of a sonnet.
- 10. It is the rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse.
- 11. Describes the rhyme that the words establish in a line.
- 12. Is a metrical foot used in poetry.
- 13. A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem;a verse.
- 15. A sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg.
- 17. It is a pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem.
- 18. It is a verse without a rhyme that uses iambic pentameter.
- 20. It is a stanza of four lines,especially one having alternate rhymes.
- 22. Is poem or stanza of eight lines;an octet.
Down
- 1. Two lines of verse,usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme,that form a unit.
- 2. A poem that praises something or expresses a type of emotion.
- 3. Verse Poetry that does not follow rules of meter and rhyme and often follows spoken word patterns.
- 4. Denoting a sonnet of the kind used by the Italian poet Petrarch, with an octave rhyming abbaabba, and a sestet typically rhyming cdcdcd or cdecde.
- 5. A poem that makes up a story.
- 6. A repeated line or a number of lines in a poem.
- 7. A poem with 14 lines that has 2 rhymes.
- 9. Words that make up a poem.
- 14. An imitation of the style of a particular writer with a deliberate exaggeration for a comic effect.
- 16. A pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever way.
- 19. A phrase or statement written in the memory of a person who has died.
- 21. Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm,typically having a rhyme.