Poetry: Terms to Know Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• diction: the choice of words a poet uses to show meaning, mood, or feeling.
• ambiguity: a word or phrase that can have more than one meaning.
• end-stop: a line of poetry that ends with punctuation to make you pause.
• enjambment: a line of poetry that keeps going without a pause onto the next line.
• rhyme: when words have the same or similar ending sounds, often at the end of lines.
• slant rhyme: when words almost rhyme but don’t sound exactly the same (e.g, "heart" and "hard").
• stanza: a group of lines in a poem, separated by spaces.
• syntax: the way words are put together to make sentences or lines.
• free verse: poetry that doesn’t have a regular rhyme or rhythm.
• alliteration: repeating the same starting sounds in nearby words.
• imagery: words that create pictures in your mind by describing sights, sounds, smells, tastes, or touches.
• characterization: how the poet shows what a person or subject is like.
• speaker: the person or voice talking in the poem.
• figurative language: words that go beyond their usual meaning to make the poem more interesting, like similes and metaphors.
• denotation: the dictionary meaning of a word.
• connotation: the feelings or ideas that a word makes you think of, beyond its basic meaning.
• personification: giving human traits to something that is not human.
• hyperbole: an exaggeration to make something sound bigger or more important.
• simile: comparing two things using "like" or "as."
• metaphor: comparing two things directly without using "like" or "as."
• allusion: a quick reference to something famous like a person, place, or story.