Across
- 1. a funny exaggeration (i.e. "I could eat a horse!")
- 5. the last name of the author of "Annabel Lee"
- 7. the repetition of consonant sounds within nearby words (i.e. "pitter patter")
- 9. the type of rhyme when the end sounds of words are close to the same, but not perfectly matched (i.e. "Foot" and "Fruit")
- 10. when the author gives readers a clue about something that will happen later
- 13. a comparison without using "like" or "as"
- 14. a reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work (i.e. "He's such a romeo.")
- 15. the type of rhyme when the location of the rhyme is at the end of two separate lines of poetry (i.e. "twinkle twinkle little star/How I wonder what you are")
- 16. the type of rhyme when the location of the rhyme is within the same line (i.e. "The stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes")
- 17. the repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words (i.e. "Hey! He ate the last grapes!")
- 18. a comparison using "like" or "as"
- 19. a sound word; a word that looks like the sound it describes (i.e. "boom!" "splash!")
- 20. a word formed by combining two words with opposite or contradictory meanings (i.e. "jumbo shrimp")
- 22. the repetition of sounds at the ends of words, usually used in poetry (i.e. "fox," "socks," and "box")
Down
- 2. the type of rhyme when the end sounds of words are exactly the same "i.e. "Cat" and "Hat")
- 3. the feelings or ideas associated with a word
- 4. to give human qualities to something inhuman or inanimate (i.e. "the moon smiled at me.")
- 6. the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables (rhythmic feet) in a line of poetry (i.e. Iambic pentameter)
- 8. the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words (i.e. "Peter Piper")
- 11. the last name of the author of "My Mother Pieced Quilts"
- 12. a word's literal dictionary definition
- 21. the audible pattern within a poem; a beat that is created with stressed and unstressed syllables. A single unit is called a "foot."