Practice Crossword

the measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poet’s placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line
poetry that does not rhyme or have a measureable meter
an object of action that means something more than its literal meaning
this occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line
the repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text
a single line of poetry
a story/narrative in poetic form
a unified group of lines in poetry; this is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem
the author’s specific word choice
the central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader
a word that sounds like what it means
the repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
the attitude the poem’s narrator takes towards a subject or character
the recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry; depending on how sounds are arranged, the ____ of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth
a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using connecting words, such as “like” or “as"
a brief reference to a real or fictional person event place or work of art
a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connecting words, like “like” or “as"