Across
- 2. overtones or suggestions of additional meanings that a word may carry beyond its denotative meaning
- 3. The repetition of a consonant sound
- 7. the repetition of the same stressed vowel sound as well as any consonant sounds that follow the vowel
- 12. a line of verse that does not end in punctuation but carries on grammatically into the next line; also called enjambment
- 14. An emphasis, or accent, placed on a syllable in speech; the high point in a syllabic meter: ta
- 18. A recurring symbol, character, landscape, or event found in myth and literature across different cultures and eras
- 20. a person, place, or thing that suggests meanings beyond its literal sense.
- 21. The mood or manner of expression in a poem, which conveys an attitude toward the poem’s subject
- 23. words that express ideas or concepts
- 26. a recurring pattern of two or more lines of verse
- 30. a two line stanza
- 33. An attempt to represent a thing or action by a word that imitates the sound associated with it.
- 35. A statement that one thing is something else, which, in a literal sense, it is not.
- 37. rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines
- 38. Sometimes called a “fixed form” because the poem follows a set of rules that create some sort of pattern
- 40. A traditional narrative of anonymous authorship that arises out of a culture’s oral tradition
- 41. a four line stanza
- 43. traditional and widely-‐used verse form, especially popular for love poetry
- 45. when the last syllables within a verse rhyme
- 46. The turning point; signals a shift in tone
- 49. A discrepancy between what is said and what is meant.
- 50. the ordinary speech of educated native speakers, more studied than colloquial but not pretentious
- 51. a pause anywhere in a poetic line, or at the end of the line.
Down
- 1. the heightened, impersonal language of educated persons, usually only written, but possibly spoken on dignified occasions
- 2. presents a contrast between the speaker’s position or aspiration and the treatment he or she receives at the hands of fate.
- 4. A word or series of words that refers to any sensory experience.
- 5. occurs when two words share similar but not identical sounds
- 6. relies solely upon sentence structure as its basic unit of thought
- 8. Two or more words that contain an identical or similar vowel and consonant sound
- 9. a eight line stanza
- 10. The lowest level of diction, the language of the common people; speech not much affected by schooling
- 11. any composition in lines of more or less regular rhythm
- 13. words that refer to what we can immediately perceive with our senses
- 15. the art of determining the metrical pattern of verse in a poem by counting syllables, marking the accents, and indicating caesuras.
- 16. The recurring pattern of stresses and pauses in a poem: ta-‐dum
- 17. the repetition of a vowel sound
- 19. An unstressed syllable, creating a low point in a syllabic meter: dum
- 22. presents a situation in which the larger implications of a speaker’s words are unrealized by that speaker but seen by the poet and the reader/audience.
- 24. the casual or informal but correct language of ordinary native speakers, conversational in tone
- 25. poems that have neither a Rhyme scheme nor a basic meter
- 27. literal, dictionary meaning of a word
- 28. After the essential comparison is made, the poet “plays” with it, expanding the properties of the vehicle in a continuous way
- 29. The harmonious effect when the sounds of words connect with the meaning in a way pleasing to the ear and mind.
- 31. a mode of expression in which the speaker says the opposite of what is really meant.
- 32. a six line stanza
- 34. a three line stanza
- 36. The establishment of more than one comparison, ideally all relating to the unifying theme of the poem.
- 39. a line of verse that ends in a full pause
- 42. A harsh, discordant sound
- 44. Latin for “mask.” A fictitious character created by an author to be the speaker of a poem.
- 47. Word choice or vocabulary
- 48. When stresses recur at fixed intervals, creating a predictable pattern of sound, such as iambic or trochaic