Poetry Activity Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• confessional : poems about personal experiences, emotions, triumphs, and tragedies.
• rhyme : repetition of concluding sounds in different words, often intentionally use at the ends of poetic lines.
• ballad : narrative poem, rooted in an oral tradition, usually arranged in in quatrains rhyming abcb and containing a refrain.
• stanza : group of lines in a poem that forms a metrical or thematic unit.
• diction : word choice that determines the level of language used in a piece of literature.
• lyric : poem the communicates a speaker's mood, feelings, or state of mind.
• rhythm : regular recurrence of sounds in a poem.
• meter : regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
• hyperbole : figurative language that depends on intentional overstatement; extreme exaggeration.
• poetry : medium that employs the line as its formal unit, in which the sound, rhythm, and meaning of words are equally important.
• poems : what bradstreet is referring to in her poem when she says, "offspring of my feeble brain".
• anne brad street : author of "the author to her book".
• metaphor : comparison of two things without using "like" or "as".
• simile : comparison of two things using "like" or "as".
• imagery : words or phrases that describe the concrete experience of the five senses.