Poetry Terms

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Across
  1. 4. 4 lines of any meter or rhyme scheme
  2. 5. Similarity of sound in the middle of words.
  3. 6. 5 lines of any meter or rhyme scheme
  4. 9. The repetition of consonant sounds with different vowel sounds.
  5. 11. the first letters of each line spell a word
  6. 12. When words sound alike—often found at the ends of the words.
  7. 13. Similarity of sound at the beginning of words. (Usually the initial consonant)
  8. 15. The last word in each line rhymes with other lines in the poem. (This is the most common type of rhyming in English poetry.)
  9. 17. A word in the middle of the line rhymes with the word on the end of the line.
  10. 19. any number of lines with no regular meter or rhyme scheme
  11. 20. 7 lines of Iambic Pentameter ( ababbcc )
  12. 21. 4 lines - 1st and 3rd, Iambic Tetrameter, 2nd and 4th,
Down
  1. 1. 2 lines of iambic pentameter (aa)
  2. 2. any number of lines of unrhymed Iambic Pentameter
  3. 3. The sound of the word imitates the sound it describes.
  4. 7. When the poet uses consonance and assonance to produce rhymes
  5. 8. 8 lines of any meter or rhyme scheme
  6. 10. 3 lines of any meter or rhyme scheme
  7. 14. 14 lines of Iambic Pentameter
  8. 16. 2 lines with identical rhythm (aa)
  9. 18. 6 lines of any meter or rhyme scheme