Poetry Terminology

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Across
  1. 3. The beat of the poem
  2. 4. Repetition of ss and shh sounds e.g. she sells sea shells
  3. 5. Repetition of vowel sounds e.g. rain and same
  4. 6. When a line goes on to the next line without punctuation
  5. 10. Non-human things are given human characteristics
  6. 12. Another word for stanza
  7. 13. A large scale fight – the topic of our poems
  8. 17. Two lines next to each other in a poem, often rhyming
  9. 18. A type of poem with 14 lines – Shakespeare wrote these.
  10. 19. Whether it’s the poet or persona narrating the poem
Down
  1. 1. Equivalent to a paragraph in a poem
  2. 2. A type of poem with no set rhyme or rhythm
  3. 7. Repetition of consonant sounds e.g. Peter Piper
  4. 8. Describing something as being something else
  5. 9. Comparing using like or as
  6. 11. When a line finishes with a full stop (.) or semicolon (:)
  7. 14. The emotions a poem produces
  8. 15. A character used to tell a poem
  9. 16. Someone who writes poems
  10. 20. When two words sound similar e.g. rain and plain