Across
- 1. unrhymed Iambic Pentameter is used for the treatment of serious themes by many great poets
- 7. an eight-line stanza often used to emphasize the first eight lines of an Italian sonnet
- 9. language that is reserved for poetry only
- 11. a truth expressed in the form of an apparent contradiction
- 13. a court poet or official state poet
- 14. a popular meter consisting of five iambic feet
- 15. the most common type of rhythm in English verse, consists of an unaccented syllable
- 17. unaccented syllables followed by an accented one
- 20. an accented syllable followed by an unaccented one
- 21. an implied comparison in which one thing is described in the terms of another
- 22. a six-line poem which follows an eight-line division to clarify the preceding octave
- 25. the regular recurrence of sounds
Down
- 2. a reference to mythology,history or a literary work
- 3. one accented syllable
- 4. the pattern in a line of poetry, consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables
- 5. an accented syllable followed by unaccented ones
- 6. accented syllables
- 8. the stressing of certain syllables or words
- 10. saying the opposite of what is meant
- 12. struggle between two opposing forces
- 16. the measured rhythm of a poem
- 18. the arrangement of events in a story or play
- 19. a secondary plot woven into the main plot
- 23. the repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the end of lines of poetry
- 24. the similarity of sound between 2 words