Poetry Terminology

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Across
  1. 2. a four line stanza
  2. 3. a comparison that is not literally true
  3. 5. a poem's equivalent of a paragraph
  4. 8. repetition of consonants
  5. 10. a pause
  6. 12. a line of ten syllables
  7. 13. the effect of metre on the reader
  8. 15. the organisation of syllables
  9. 16. exaggeration for an effect
  10. 19. repetition of sounds
  11. 20. a poem that tells a story
  12. 22. a reference to another person or text
  13. 23. giving an inanimate object human qualities
Down
  1. 1. a comparison between two things using the words 'as' or 'like'
  2. 4. the sound of a word resembles the meaning of the word
  3. 6. a three line poem
  4. 7. a group of six verses
  5. 9. a pair of lines that rhyme
  6. 11. the meaning of a line flows into the next line
  7. 14. words that look as if they should rhyme but do not
  8. 17. one person speaking at length
  9. 18. an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
  10. 21. repetition of vowels