Across
- 4. a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
- 8. the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
- 9. the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
- 12. the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements
- 14. the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause
- 15. address to an absent or imaginary person
- 17. the pattern of rhymes in a poem or stanza
- 18. the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- 19. a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
- 20. extravagant exaggeration
Down
- 1. using words that imitate the sound they denote
- 2. passing reference or indirect mention
- 3. use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
- 5. the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
- 6. a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered
- 7. the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device
- 10. unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
- 11. a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')
- 13. a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
- 16. a lyric poem with complex stanza forms