Poetic Terms

2. speech or writing that departs from the literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning
3. group of lines forming basic structure in a poem
7. Two rhyming lines of poetry
8. Repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of multiple words
9. ordinary speech or writing
11. The act of assigning letters of the alphabet to demonstrate rhyming lines in a poem
12. A 14 line rhythmic poem
16. The measured arrangement of words in poetry as by syllabic quantity or the number of syllables in a line
18. The literal or dictionary definition of a word

1. Petrarch's first name
3. A unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound forming the whole or part of a word
4. A stanza of four lines
5. The author's word choice
6. Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter
10. Solution to the conflict in literature
13. unit where unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one
14. An idea or feeling that a word invokes
15. poetry with no rhyme or meter
17. imperfect rhyme