Across
- 3. Abstract term refers to an idea or quality, such as truth or sweetness.
- 4. Lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter
- 5. Concrete term refers to something which can be touched or seen, such as book or sky.
- 10. An end-stop occurs when a line of poetry ends with a period or definite punctuation mark, such as a colon. When lines are end-stopped, each line is its own phrase or unit of syntax. So when you read an end-stopped line, you'll naturally pause.
- 12. Rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry
- 13. Informal language or phrases
- 14. Think of meter as a poem's underlying structure—the rhythm beneath the words in each line (made up of smaller beats called “feet”)- this answers the question- “how many” when dealing with “feet.”
- 16. The creation of a literary character through the use of physical appearance, thoughts, actions, and dialogue of the character.
Down
- 1. A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables
- 2. A line of verse with five metrical feet consisting of an unstressed stressed unit pattern.
- 6. A couplet consists of two rhyming lines having the same meter.
- 7. Enjambment occurs when a phrase carries over a line-break without a major pause. When you read an enjambed line, the sense of it encourages you to keep right on reading the next line, without stopping for a breather.
- 8. A grouped set of lines within a poem, usually set off from other stanzas by a blank line, indentation, or other signal spacing
- 9. A person in a story or poem.
- 11. A unit of language into which a poem or play is divided
- 15. A repetition of sounds in words or lines of verse
- 17. A line, or part of a line, or a group of lines, which is repeated in the course of a poem (sometimes with slight changes), usually at the end of a stanza
