Poetry Terms Review

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Across
  1. 1. A phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza; chorus.
  2. 3. A reference to a well-known person, place, or event from history, literature, or religion.
  3. 8. A group of lines that form a unit in a poem.
  4. 9. The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas in a literary work.
  5. 10. The literal, dictionary definition of a word.
  6. 11. The speaker in the poem who is clearly a different person from the poet.
  7. 13. Giving human traits or characteristics to something nonhuman (animal, object, or idea).
  8. 17. The main idea or message that a poem or story conveys.
  9. 18. The pattern of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line.
  10. 19. The attitude that a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character.
  11. 20. The use of a person, place, or thing that stands for something in addition to itself.
  12. 22. Intentional exaggeration, usually used to create emphasis or humor.
  13. 23. A comparison between two unlike things WITHOUT using like or as.
Down
  1. 2. A reversal of the usual or natural order of the words.
  2. 4. A term made of two words that contradict each other, such as “jumbo shrimp”.
  3. 5. The unspoken or unwritten meanings and feelings associated with a word beyond its dictionary definition.
  4. 6. The repetition of sounds, especially consonant sounds, at the beginning of words.
  5. 7. Comparison between two unlike things using like or as.
  6. 9. The repetition of sounds (accented syllable + all following syllables) in words that appear close to each other in a poem.
  7. 12. Descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.
  8. 14. The pattern of end rhyme; a different letter of the alphabet signals each new sound, like aabbcc or ababcdcd.
  9. 15. A word whose sound suggests its meaning, such as swoosh or crackle.
  10. 16. Rhyme occurs within a line of poetry.
  11. 20. The voice that talks to the reader or to the person whom the work addresses.
  12. 21. The overall feeling that a work of literature creates for readers.