Poetic techniques / devices

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Across
  1. 4. Not a technique but a word used to talk about a ‘paragraph’ in a poem
  2. 5. The repetition of vowel sounds in a string of words
  3. 7. The repetition of the first letter (usually a consonant) in a string of words.
  4. 9. When the poet repeats a word or phrase
  5. 10. When a poet makes an unlikely comparison between two things
  6. 11. When the poet exaggerates something intentionally to get the meaning across
  7. 13. Giving inanimate objects human like characteristics
Down
  1. 1. The main emotion being expressed in a poem
  2. 2. When the poet uses words that sound like the word they are describing
  3. 3. The main idea/message being expressed in a poem
  4. 4. A comparison between two things using the words ‘like’, ‘as’ or ‘than’
  5. 6. The use of very descriptive language (adjectives)
  6. 8. When a poet continues a sentence or phrase from one line to the next with no punctuation
  7. 12. When a poet makes striking comparisons between two opposite things (eg: colours)