Poetry

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. The arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements (6)
  2. 7. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (6)
  3. 9. A line of metrical text (5)
  4. 10. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse (12)

Down

  1. 1. Verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message (8)
  2. 2. A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines (4)
  3. 3. The spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance (5)
  4. 4. Literature in metrical form (6)
  5. 6. People who are ___ (4)
  6. 8. An epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines (5)