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Across 2. Words grouped for artistic or thematic effect. The standard division of poetic text, and its defining quality. 3. The pattern and count of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line 6. Number of stanzas, rhyme scheme, spacing pattern, refrain or combination thereof 7. Reader's first experience, often encapsulates meaning of the work 10. One thing that represents or stands for another 11. A change in rhetorical stance, essential to the overall meaning of the poem 12. Word order

Down 1. Literary shorthand techniques used by the author to create effect 4. The emotional stance of the narrator 5. The type of words an author chooses 8. A startling and often unexpected comparison between two wildly dissimilar things 9. Descriptive language that evokes one of the five senses