Elements of Poetry Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• imagery : words or phrases that appeal to your five senses
• onomatopoeia : a word to describe or imitate a sound
• idiom : an expression that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words
• denotation : dictionary definition of a word
• simile : comparison using like or as
• rhyme : the repetition of the sounds at the ends of words
• metaphor : comparison not using like or as
• diction : the author's choice of words
• shift : any changes in tone, mood, setting, p.o.v, speaker, etc. in a poem or story
• allusion : reference to a literary work, mythological or historical person, place, or thing
• poetry : genre of literature written in lines
• connotation : the feelings or emotions a word creates
• rhyme scheme : the pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem
• repetition : words, sound, or ideas are repeated
• literal : text means exactly what it says
• rhythm : the pattern of beats or words with emphasis in a poem
• stanza : a group of lines in a poem
• alliteration : repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of two or more adjacent words/same letter
• personification : giving human characteristics to something that is not human
• imagery : descriptive words an author uses to appeal to the five senses
• free verse : poem that has no restrictions on number of syllables, lines, or rhyming patterns
• line : a single row of words in a poem. lines make up stanzas.
• hyperbole : an exaggeration