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Basic Poetry

Teacher: Lancelot Falcon
Across
A narrative having a second meaning beneath the surface one - a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.
English (or Shakespearean) lyric poems that are 14 lines long falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet.
A verse or poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines.
Long poems which are serious in nature and written to a set structure.
One of the best known writers of the sonnet.
One of the best know odes written by John Keats.
A series of lines that create a mood, picture, or feeling. Lines are made up of words and phrases. The first word of line 1 begins with an A, the first word of line 2 begins with a B etc.
A figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics. In other words, a resemblance of two contradictory or different objects is made based on a single or some common characteristics.
Does not follow the rules, and has no rhyme or rhythm; but they are still an artistic expression. They are sometimes thought to be a modern form of poetry; but, have been around for hundreds of years.
A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, using like or as.
Down
A literary device which can be defined as having two successive rhyming lines in a verse and has the same meter to form a complete thought. It is marked by a usual rhythm, rhyme scheme and incorporation of specific utterances.
A well know allegory written Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Combines the characteristics of poetry with the apparent appearance of prose containing traces of metrical structure or verse. Prose poetry deliberately breaks some of the normal rules of prose to create heightened imagery or emotional effect.
The study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
Poetic measure; arrangement of words in regularly measured, patterned, or rhythmic lines or verses.A particular form of such arrangement, depending on either the kind or the number of feet constituting the verse or both rhythmic kind and number of feet (usually used in combination).
Carpe diem poems have the theme of living for today.
A Latin expression that means "seize the day."
Long, serious poems that tells the story of a heroic figure.