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Down: 1) A poem whose shape suggests the subject of the poem 2) The speed of utterance, how quickly or slowly the language moves through the poem 4) A successive pair of lines of poetry that are usually rhymed 6) A poem that tells a story. It contains characters and a plot 7) Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme 9) A long, serious poem that tells the story of a heroic figure 10) A rhythmical pattern determined by the number of stresses or beats in each line of a poem 12) Highly musical poem (beautiful language) that expresses the feelings or thoughts of the speaker rather than telling a story; creates a single, unified impression 13) Writing or speech not meant to be taken literally 16) The use, more than once, of a sound, word, phrase, line, etc.17) A comparison of two unlike things in which one thing becomes another 18) A metrical foot of two syllables, one short (or unstressed) and one long (or stressed)20) A fourteen line lyric poem with a single theme. These poems vary, but they are usually written in iambic pentameter, following two traditional patterns 22) The attitude a writer takes towards the subject, character or audience 24) a group of syllables forming the basic unit of verse meter 25) A comparison of two unlike things using like,as, than, resembles 26) A Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables 27) Repetition of beginning sounds, usually consonants 31) A poem that laments the death of a person or thing, or one that is simply sad and thoughtful 36) A formal lyric poem with a serious theme

Across: 3) Similar to alliteration but the repetition of similar consonant sounds can be at the beginning or end of the word (but are especially at the ends of words, as in lost and past or confess and dismiss)5) Repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words (ex. The child of mine was lying on her side & fleet, deep, heed)8) Repetition of sounds at the end of words 11) Poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter 14) The goal of the poem; the reason it was written 15) A figure of speech in which deliberate exaggeration is used for emphasis 19) A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit 21) Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a spoken or written language 23) A comparison that is developed throughout the course of the work 28) Figure of speech where an animal or inanimate object is given human characteristics 29) A light humorous, nonsensical, or bawdy verse of five anapestic lines with the rhyme scheme aabba. The 1st, 2nd ,and 5th line have 9 syllables and the 3rd and 4th lines have 6 syllables. Traditionally, the first line introduces a person and a place (There once was a boy from Lindero)30) Use of words that imitate sound 32) Language that appeals to one or more of the senses 33) A song or poem that tells a story 34) In poetry, the line is a unit chosen by the poet, and it has certain effects on the reader. Those effects include: speed of reading (especially when other pacing elements are used), meaning, and emphasis. A poem’s pacing can be determined by line break or punctuation. In poetry, punctuation works differently than most other forms of writing. A poet uses punctuation not so much for grammatical correctness but rather for effect. In a poem, the use of a comma or a period or using neither can change the meaning completely. Choices of punctuation, periods, question marks, and exclamation marks are placed under the category of full stops. Commas, semi colons, ellipses and dashes are placed under the category of short pauses.35) Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme 37) A repeated sound, word, phrase, line, or group of lines (a chorus)

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