Poetic terms Crossword
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
 
 
Down: 1) a statement that seems to contradict itself but may nevertheless suggest an important truth2) literal meaning3) it is divided into 3 quatrains and a couplet5) occurs when someone states one thing and means another6) a writer's attitude toward his or her subject7) a person, place, or object that has a concrete meaning in itself and also stands for something beyond itself such as a feeling or an idea9) the sounds of accented vowels and all succeeding sounds are identical, but the consonants preceding the vowels must be different10) a poem written in blank verse consists of unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter.11) emotional response evoked by a word14) a contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen15) poetry that does not have regular patterns of rhyme and meter17) a figure of speech in which an object, animal, or idea is given human ideas19) consists of two parts. The first 8 lines(octave), usually have the rhyme scheme of abbaabba. In the last six lines(sestet) the rhyme scheme is cdecde/cdcdcd.20) process of creating or using words that imitate sounds23) repetition of consonant sounds of the beginnings of words27) refers to a contrast between appearance and actuality30) a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.31) a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. Across: 4) a thought which is carried over in to the the following line without a grammatical break or logical pause; emphasizes the word "carried over" to the next line8) something closely related to a thing that is substituted for the thing itself12) a figure of speech that compares two things that have something in common13) repetition of consonant sounds within and at the ends of the words16) a speaker directly addresses an absent or dead person or an abstract if it were human entity as if it were present18) occurs when readers know more about a situation or character in a story than the characters do21) a sonnet is a 14-line poem, commonly written in iambic pentameter22) repetition of vowel sounds within words24) a short poem in which a single speaker expresses thoughts and feelings in intensely emotional language.25) an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.26) brings together two contradictory terms28) two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable.29) description of a person, an event, or an idea from a perspective that greatly plays down the importance of the subject, often to add humor or to make a point ironically32) a figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or for humorous effects33) apart of something represents the whole object or idea34) a figure of speech that compares two things that have something in common, using a words such as "like" or "as".
 

 

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