Poetry Terms Crossword

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Across 3. language that imitates sounds 6. a play on words 9. the repetition of consonant sounds in a series of words 10. a stanza containing four lines 13. the comparison two unlike things 14. a metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable and one unaccented syllable 15. criticizing something by making fun of it 16. language that uses figures of speech to modify the literal meanings of words 18. using language to create a sensory experience 21. unrhymed verse in iambic pentameter 22. the pattern of stressed and unstressed sylables; the beat 25. combines two words with opposite definitions 26. a poem that consists of 14 lines with the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

Down 1. a short, unrhymed five-lined poem with a 2,4,6,8,2 pattern 2. five pairs of iambs making up one line of poetry 4. the pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry 5. bestows human characteristics on anything non-human 7. rhyme that occurs withing a line of verse 8. the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in proximate words 11. two successive lines of rhyming verse 12. the comparison two unlike things using like or as 17. a figure of speech that usues extreme exaggeration 19. a Japanese verse consisting of three unrhymed lines with a 5,7,5 pattern 20. a grouped set of lines in a poem 21. a poem that recounts a story 23. the words of a lyrical poem(such as ballad, sonnet, or ode) or song 24. the repetion of sounds at the ends of words

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