Across
- 4. a figure of speech that intentionally uses exaggeration, or overstatement, for special effect
- 6. a reference to a person, place, event, or literary work that the writer expects the reader to recognize
- 10. word or words which appeal to the senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell) and help to create pictures or images in the reader’s mind
- 11. the point of view from which the poem is told, but is not always the poet
- 12. a comparison of two unlike things without using “like” or “as”
- 14. a figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory ideas or terms are combined
- 15. a figure of speech which gives animals, objects, or ideas human characteristics
- 16. the author’s attitude toward the subject or characters
- 17. the atmosphere or feeling created in a literary work
Down
- 1. an object that represents something other than itself
- 2. the musical quality of a poem, the combination of stressed and unstressed syllables that create a pattern
- 3. a group of consecutive lines in a poem that is similar to a paragraph and is separated by a blank line
- 5. a comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”
- 7. a common thread, concept, or repeated idea that is incorporated throughout a literary work
- 8. (two words) when rhyming words are at the end of separate lines of verse
- 9. the point of view from which the poem is told, but is not always the poet
- 13. the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words