Across
- 5. A rhetorical figure embodying a seeming contradiction that is nonetheless true
- 8. any three lines of poetry, whether as a stanza or as a poem, rhymed or unrhymed, metered or unmetered
- 9. two successive rhyming lines
- 10. repeated word or series of words in response or counterpoint to the main verse, as in a ballad
- 11. rhyme An exact rhyme (rather than rhyming vowel sounds, as with assonance) within a line of poetry: "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
Down
- 1. pentameter: Iamb (iambic): an unstressed stressed foot.The most natural and common kind of meter in English; it elevates speech to poetry
- 2. Images are references that trigger the mind to fuse together memories of sight (visual), sounds (auditory), tastes (gustatory), smells (olfactory), and sensations of touch (tactile). Imagery refers to images throughout a work or throughout the works of a writer or group of writers.
- 3. a piece of verse complete in four rhymed lines
- 4. The basic unit of measure element of an accentual-syllabic meter. A foot usually contains one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable
- 6. The repetition of identical vowel sounds in different words in close proximity. Example: deep green sea
- 7. The number of feet within a line of traditional verse