Poetry Terms

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. Of or relating to or including several cultures (13)
  2. 7. A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally (8)
  3. 10. Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (5)
  4. 12. Literature in metrical form (6)
  5. 13. An inherited pattern of thought or action (9)
  6. 14. A writer of poems (4)

Down

  1. 1. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (6)
  2. 2. A collection containing a ___ of sorts of things (7)
  3. 3. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse (12)
  4. 4. The ability to form mental ___ of things or events (7)
  5. 6. A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines (4)
  6. 8. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions (7)
  7. 9. The arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements (6)
  8. 11. A gathering of spectators or listeners at a performance (8)