Across
- 3. A Japanese poetic form that consists of three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third.
- 5. two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
- 7. The background information on characters and setting
- 8. arrangement of rhythms in a repetitive pattern of strong and weak beats.
- 10. A form of verse, often a narrative set to music.
- 11. literary device that contradicts itself but contains a plausible kernel of truth
- 13. A resemblance in the sounds of words/syllables either between their vowels or between their consonants.
- 15. Poems that convey emotion and thoughts
- 20. the repetition of the same stressed vowel sound as well as any consonant sounds that follow the vowel.
- 22. a type of metric line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama.
- 24. A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically five-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme.
- 25. The narrator is all-knowing
- 27. A stylistic literary device identified by the repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words.
- 28. correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
Down
- 1. Understatement in which a positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite.
- 2. characterization (Direct) The Narrator or author telling what the character is like. (Indirect) The author showing what the character is through the characters actions, deeds, and
- 4. rhyme with words that have similar, but not identical sounds.
- 6. Poems that tell a story
- 9. a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
- 12. self-contradicting word or group of words
- 14. Poems that are lengthy
- 16. Written or spoken language without metrical structure
- 17. Third person narration from a single character
- 18. unrhymed verse in iambic pentameter lines.
- 19. word, line or phrase that is repeated within the lines or stanzas of the poem itself.
- 21. Poems that entails drama
- 23. A basic repeated sequence of meter composed of two or more accented or unaccented syllables.
- 26. poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.