Across
- 2. Contrasting words, phrases, or ideas that contrast in unexpected ways are placed near each other.
- 3. Giving human characteristics or nature to non-human things
- 5. The repetition of specific consonant sounds
- 8. An apparent contradiction in a situation or statement which is, nevertheless, true.
- 10. A rhyme not occurring at the ends of a poem's lines
- 12. The repetition of specific vowel sounds
- 13. A poem that tells a story
- 15. A specific rhyme pattern that repeats in a poem
- 20. A two syllables rhyme
- 22. The sharing of similar sounds in words
- 23. A brief, undeveloped reference to a presumably familiar place, event, or figure from literature, history, mythology, or the Bible.
- 25. A narrative poem concerning a serious topic, usually containing heroic deeds or actions
- 26. The implications of a word beyond the dictionary definition
- 27. A comparison between two objects that doesn't use the words "like" or "as"
- 28. A poem having no rhyme or regular meter
Down
- 1. A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole
- 4. The running over of a sentence or thought into the next couplet or line without a pause at the end of the line
- 6. A rhyme occuring at the end of a poem's lines
- 7. The dictionary definition of a word
- 9. The repetition of beginning constanant sounds
- 11. The overall topic or idea of a poem
- 14. A poem expressing personal thoughts or feelings
- 16. An emotional effect that the text creates for the audience
- 17. an over exageration
- 18. The words rhyme to the eye but not the ear
- 19. The use of words to represent or recreate sounds
- 21. A comparison between two objects using the words "like" or "as"
- 24. The speaker's attitude