Poetic Devices / Literary Terms Crossword

The specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone, purpose or effect
A repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds usually those found in stressed syllables of close proximity
A section of a poem demarcated by extra line spacing
Overstatement characterized by exaggerated language
A feeling of ambiance resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the writer attitude and pov
A figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements sometimes resulting in a humorous image or statement
Ordinary language , the venavular
A reference to a literary or historic event
The sequential repetition of a similar initial sound usually applied to constants usually heard in close proximate stressed syllables
Two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter that together present a single idea or connection
A lyric poem that is somewhat serious in subject matter and treatment
A word capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes
A direct explicit comparison of one thing to another usually using word "like" or "as"
The attitude a literary work takes toward its subject and theme
The repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants but with a change in the intervening vowels
Broadly defined any sensory detail or evocation in a work
The more or less regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
Treating an abstraction or non human object as if it were a person
An understatement for rhetorical effect
The use of conjunctions in close succession
The person now necessarily the author who is the voice in the poem
A technique in writing in which the author temporarily interrupts the order
An address or invocation to something that is inanimate
The modulation of weak and strong element on the flow of speech
A meterical foot of poetry consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable
The regular repetition of the same similar sounds most often at the end of lines
A pause in a line or verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather than due specific metrical patterns
A poetic stanza of four lines
A foot of poetry consisting of one long stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable
The omission or absence of conjunctions between parts of a sentence
An extended metaphor in a poem
A situation that seems contradictory but may actually true
A generalized abstract paraphrase of the inferred central or dominant idea
Comparing two things without using the words "like" or "as "
The regular repetition of the same word at the beginning of sucessive phrases