Poetry Devices Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• refrain : a line or phrase that recurs throughout a poem - especially at the end of stanzas.
• beat : the rhythmic or musical quality of a poem. in metrical verse, this is determined by the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
• rhyme : the effect produced when similar vowel sounds chime together and where the final consonant sound is also in agreement e.g. 'bat' and 'cat'.
• couplet : a stanza comprising of two lines.
• quatrain : a stanza comprising of four lines
• homonym : two or more words which share the same spelling and pronunciation but have different meanings e.g. 'pole' and 'pole'.
• verse : either a definite number of lines of poetry or a general term for poetic composition.
• apostrophe : poem which is directly addressed to a person or thing (often absent).
• consonance : the repetition, at close intervals, of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words
• sonnet : a fourteen line poem usually in iambic pentameters consisting of an octave and a sestet. the octave presents and develops the theme while the sestet reflects and brings the poem to a conclusion.
• meter : is the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up a line of poetry. it gives rhythm and regularity to poetry.
• octave : a stanza comprising of eight lines
• imagery : the creation of images using words. poets usually achieve this by invoking comparisons by means of metaphor or simile or other figures of speech.
• homophone : two or more words which are pronounced the same but have different spelling and meaning e.g. 'saw' (to cut) and 'sore' (hurting).
• theme : the main idea, thesis or subject matter of a poem.