Across
- 5. a line of poetry that ends without punctuation, causing the reader to continue into the following line without a pause
- 7. words that help the reader sense or picture what is being described; sensory descriptions; can be literal or figurative
- 9. the use of a word whose sound imitates, suggests, and reinforces its meaning
- 11. a figure of speech attributing human qualities to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract ideas.
Down
- 1. a figure of speech to draw an indirect comparison between two dissimilar things using “like” or “as”
- 2. deliberate use of exaggeration for serious or humorous emphasis; also called overstatement
- 3. a repetition of the same consonant (consonance) in close succession
- 4. he positioning of words to emphasize the agreement or similarity of their sounds
- 6. a common figure of speech in which a direct comparison or identification is made between two unlike objects
- 8. the choice of words, phraseology, or vocabulary used purposefully by the writer depending on the subject, the type of poem, purpose, and style.
- 10. brief, undeveloped reference to a familiar or famous place, event, or figure from literature
- 12. a resemblance of vowel sounds between syllables of nearby words