Across
- 2. It is a fun little device you don’t see often in contemporary poetry. It occurs when one verb is used to mean two different things for two different objects. For example, I might say “He ate some pasta, and my heart out.” To eat pasta and eat someone’s heart out are two very different definitions for ate: one consumption is physical, the other is conceptual.
- 5. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers".
- 7. Don’t confuse this with the punctuation mark for plural nouns. It describes any instance when the speaker talks to a person or object that is absent from the poem.
- 8. It repeats the same phrase at the beginning of each line.
- 9. instead of “a part for a part,” the writer substitutes “a part for a whole.” In other words, they represent an object with only a distinct part of the object. If I described your car as “a nice set of wheels,” then I’m using it to refer to your car.
Down
- 1. It ranks among the most powerful literary devices in poetry. In any poetry, it can be employed by exploring any one metaphor in depth. For example, if matchsticks were to be used as a metaphor for love, it could explore love in all its intensity
- 3. the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
- 4. It is the repetition of vowel sounds and along with rhyme and alliteration, it is a powerful poetic device that writers can use to make their words stand out. E.g., Go slow on the road.
- 6. when the writer replaces “a part for a part,” choosing one noun to describe a different noun. For example, in the phrase “the pen is mightier than the sword,” the pen is a __________ for writing and the sword is a _______ for fighting.