Across
- 3. reserved by the Romantic poets to convey their strongest sentiments, it can be generalized as a formal address to an event, a person, or a thing not present. For instance: William Wordsworth’s “Ode on Intimations of Immortality From Recollections of Early Childhood”.
- 5. word order and sentence structure.
- 8. a group of three lines in verse; a stanza comprised of three lines
- 9. repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often the sounds beginning words, in close proximity.
Down
- 1. repetition of identical concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines. Example: June--moon.
- 2. images are references that trigger the mind to fuse together memories of sight (visual), sounds (auditory), tastes (gustatory), smells (olfactory), and sensations of touch (tactile). Imagery refers to images throughout a work or throughout the works of a writer or group of writers.
- 4. Diction is usually used to describe the level of formality that a speaker uses.
- 6. a comparison between two unlike things, this describes one thing as if it were something else. Does not use "like" or "as" for the comparison (see simile).
- 7. the "turning" point of a Petrarchan sonnet, usually occurring between the octave and the sestet.
- 8. the poet’s attitude toward the poem’s speaker, reader, and subject matter, as interpreted by the reader -often described as a “mood” that pervades the experience of reading the poem.