Across
- 4. the beat on which the words of a poem fall onto
- 5. a pause caused by the rhythm of natural speech
- 8. comparison not using like or as
- 10. two successive rhyming lines in a verse that have the same meter
- 13. comparison using like or as
- 14. a tributary poem
- 17. an indirect reference
- 18. the frequent use of conjunctions
- 20. deliberate repetition of the first part of a sentence in order to achieve artistic value
- 22. words or phrases with a meaning different from its literal meaning
- 24. style or speaking or writing
- 25. succession with letters belonging to the same sound group
- 27. concepts or ideas contradictory to eachother
- 28. the use of informal/slang words
- 29. a form of rhetoric speech that uses an understated statement of an affirmative by using negative description
- 31. the use of two contradictory ideas in a way that makes sense
- 33. the purposeful omission of conjunctions
- 34. the use of descriptive/graphic language
Down
- 1. the unit of rhythm in poetry
- 2. similar sounding endings to words
- 3. on group, or unit, or lines in poetry
- 6. the voice or a story or poem
- 7. the attitude of the author
- 9. exaggeration or overemphasis
- 11. a word that expresses a sound
- 12. giving human traits to inanimate objects
- 15. the feelings created by the author
- 16. long syllables followed by short ones
- 19. comparing two very unlikely things in a clever way
- 20. a figure of speech represented by an exclamation
- 21. the repetition of sounds produced by vowels
- 23. a four-lined poem
- 26. repetition of sounds produces by consonants
- 30. main idea or underlying meaning
- 32. a foot containing unaccented and short syllables