Secondary English - Literature Crossword Puzzle

This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Figurative Language & Literary Devices has 30 clues. Answers range from 4 to 18 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.

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this aspect of a metaphor is the original subject being described
An indirect comparison using the part of something to stand for the whole
an entire story with two levels of meaning
a comparison made using the terms "like" or "as"
author of the poem, "A Bird Came Down the Walk"
"The Spider and the Wasp" was an example of this form
In Cowper's "The Nightingale & the Glowworm," the Nightingale represents the beauty of poetry while the Glowworm?
the sonnet form divided by an octave and a sestet
sonnet form structured by three quatrains and a concluding couplet
the address of an absent audience
Twain employed this device in "What Stumped the Bluejays" to advance the humorous effect
sound device that repeats the initial consonant sound of several words in a line of poetry
device that appeals to one's sensory perception
a term that itself mimics the sound described
Hughes's comparison of life to a staircase in "Mother to Son" illustrates this?
a reference within a literary work to something outside itself to enhance meaning
"Stronger by weakness" found in Waller's poem, "The Soul's Dark Cottage" is an example of this kind of statement?
In Herbert's "The Windows," the stained glass window is likened to what?
the main or recurring idea(s) in a literary work
a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
words that look alike but do not sound alike
In Rossetti's poem, "Who Has Seen the Wind?" is its opening line, and an example of ?
The line, "diamond-patterned inlaid band" of Chavez's "Rattlesnake" is an example of this sound device
In his poem, "On the Grasshopper & the Cricket," Keats equates the songs of the insects in all seasons to the balming influence of?
In Hoey's Foul Shot," lines 9-12, "measures the waiting net, Raises the ball, Balances it, Calms it" illustrates this device
Line 1 in Updike's "Winter Ocean" "scud-thumper, tub" is an illustration of this sound device
sound devices such as rhyme, meter, alliteration, assonance, and consonance serve to create a work's?
Of what poetic form is Stafford's "Traveling Through the Dark" a modern version?
In King's speech, he often uses this rhetorical device that is the deliberate repetition of words or phrases at the beginnings of lines of poetry, grammatical units, or paragraphs?
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country," is an example of what rhetorical device?

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