Across
- 4. A figure of speech, where a thing is described as being something else in order to suggest a similarity between the two. For example, “The cat was a rag doll in my arms”
- 7. Personification is when you give human qualities to an object or animal.
- 8. A comparison between to unlike things, usually using “like,” “as,” or “than.” For example, “his imagination was like a bird in flight.”
- 9. An extreme and obvious exaggeration, not meant to be believed or taken literally. For example, “this test is taking forever.”
Down
- 1. correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
- 2. words that are spelled the way they sound (example kaboom!)
- 3. the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words ( example peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers)
- 5. Using the same word, phrase, line, or stanza two or more times in a poem.
- 6. refers to a person’s ability to consider a situation from a different point of view. It requires you to put yourself in the other person’s position and imagine what you would feel, think, or do if you were in that situation.
- 8. group of lines in a poem, much like a paragraph in prose.