Ballads

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally (8)
  2. 4. A perceptual structure (7)
  3. 6. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse (12)
  4. 8. A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem (6)
  5. 9. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (6)
  6. 10. The characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin (plural) (8)
  7. 13. Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (5)
  8. 14. A writer of poems (4)

Down

  1. 1. To make plain and comprehensible (7)
  2. 2. To bestow a quality on (plural) (11)
  3. 3. The message that is intended or expressed or signified (7)
  4. 5. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain (6)
  5. 7. To arrange by systematic planning and united effort (8)
  6. 10. The phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe (4)
  7. 11. The arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements (6)
  8. 12. A line of metrical text (5)