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Across
  1. 1. refers to a pause within a line or verse
  2. 5. is a play on words where an author employs a word that has a second meaning or that sounds to a similar word and both meanings can be applied
  3. 6. is the dictionary definition of a word
  4. 9. is the repetition of vowel sounds. Do not configure it with simple vowel repetition as each vowel has several different sounds
  5. 12. occurs when a line does not stop at the end of the line but continues onto the next line without pause or punctuation
  6. 15. is a comparison between two things that does NOT use any helping words
  7. 18. is a special kind of metaphor that gives human attributes to a nonhuman object such as an animal object or concept
  8. 20. is a comparison made between two things that uses the helping words like as than or resembles
  9. 22. refers to all associated or implied meanings of a word
  10. 23. occurs when a poem's speaker addresses someone absent, someone dead, or something nonhuman as if it were present and could respond.
Down
  1. 2. is a brief and direct reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical cultural and literary or political significance. It does not describe or explain the person or thing to which it refers.
  2. 3. is an apparent contradiction that is nevertheless somehow true
  3. 4. refers to the act of placing two or more things side by side to compare or contrast something or to create an interesting effect
  4. 7. is a type of refrain device where the first word or phrase is repeated in a series of lines
  5. 8. is the use of something closely related to the thing actually meant
  6. 10. is a technique in which the normal order of words is reversed. This is often done to maintain a particular rhyme scheme or meter and sometimes for artistic effect
  7. 11. is the use of the part of the whole
  8. 13. is an overstatement or extravagant exaggeration so far exaggerated that it cannot be taken literally
  9. 14. is the repetition of final consonant sounds
  10. 16. is an extended metaphor with complex logic or a startling comparison that governs a poetic passage or an entire poem
  11. 17. is the representation through language of sense experience. It occurs when the words of a poem relate to one of the five senses or a sense of feeling
  12. 19. is the repetition of initial consonant sounds
  13. 20. is any image or thing that stands for something else. Symbols are used frequently in literature but also in poems
  14. 21. means the use of words which sound like they mean