Across
- 3. ghostly; illusory (as a noun, a “phantom” is a ghost or specter)
- 6. poetry not written in regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
- 8. The writer’s attitude toward his or her audience or subject.
- 11. the sensory or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures, or images, for the reader. These images are created by details of sight, sound, taste, touch, smell or movement.
- 13. based on legends, or stories handed down for generations
- 14. is the repetition of grammatically similar words or groups of words.
Down
- 1. repeated grouping of two or more lines in a poem that often share a pattern of rhythm and rhyme.
- 2. an author’s freedom to violate rules of standard written English to create literary effectsMood – or, atmosphere; the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage.
- 4. writing or speech not meant to be interpreted literally. It is often used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons of dissimilar things.
- 5. crowding into (a “throng” is a crowd)
- 7. the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage.
- 9. puzzled; full of doubt; confused
- 10. a technique used by a poet to emphasize the sound relationships among words in order to create musical and emotional effects and emphasize a poem’s meaning.
- 12. a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem The rhyme scheme of a poem is indicated by designating each line of the poem with letter of the alphabet, using a different letter for each new rhyme. (Ex. A-B-A-B is the rhyme scheme when a poem’s 1st and 3rd lines rhyme and the 2nd and 4th)