Across
- 4. (adjective) showing contempt toward sacred things
- 8. couplet: Two lines of poetry that rhyme and are usually written in iambic pentameter.
- 9. (adjective) courageous
- 10. A poetic phrase that is addressed to a subject who is absent or dead, or to an inanimate object or abstract idea.
- 11. (adjective) rowdy or rough
- 13. (noun) anger, irritability
- 14. (adjective) dealing with a sign, forewarning, or omen
- 18. The use of a word that sounds like its meanin
- 19. irony: When the audience knows something that a character does not, and the character's actions seem inappropriate or unexpected pentameter: A meter of poetry that is often used in Shakespeare's plays.
- 20. (verb) to make greater or supplement
Down
- 1. (adjective) extraordinary, marvelous
- 2. The repetition of vowel sounds for aural effect.
- 3. (noun) future generations
- 5. (adjective) having excellent morals; righteous
- 6. An unacknowledged reference or quotation.
- 7. The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of multiple lines.
- 12. The pattern of stressed syllables in a line of poetry.
- 15. A poem of 14 lines written in iambic pentameter. Shakespearean sonnets are made up of three quatrains and a rhyming couplet, while Italian sonnets are made up of an octave and a sestet.
- 16. (adjective) very destructive or harmful
- 17. verse: Poetry that is written with a precise meter, usually iambic pentameter, but does rhyme.
