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Poetry Lingo & Its Definitions

Teacher: Mr Sindlinger's Idiosyncratic Puzzles
Across
The pattern or particular repetition of stressed or unstressed sounds, often analogous to a drum beat...
The repetition of consonant sounds, not vowels, inside a line or chunk of poetic text....
It occurs when one line of poetry runs over or goes to another next line of poetry without (1) a grammatical break, (2) a punctuation mark, or (3) a rhyme...
A comparison of two unlike things that is made usually by means of a linking verb...
A word, phrase, or even a sentence that usually goes across the page horizontally...
An object, person, or place that has meaning within itself but also stands for something else within the context of the poem...
Repetition of an initial consonant sound at the beginning of a word
The feeling of the audience
A comparison of two unlike things that uses "like" or "as"...
The poet's choice of words or vocabulary if you will...
The central meaning or dominant message that the poet is trying to deliver...
Down
Any word of written or oral communication that does not take the form of poetry...
The repetition of vowel sounds (a, e, i, o, u, & y) inside a line of poetry...
The attitude of the poet or writer (e.g.: serious, informative. playful, sarcastic, or caustic, etc.) ....
Poetry that does not have a set pattern of thyme nor meter...
A word that substitutes for a sound and what that sound means....
A reference to a real or fictional person or story, including that of a myth....
A story told either in the form of a formal rhyming poem or a song...
The measured arrangement of sounds or beats in (a) given line(s) of poetry...
A unified group of lines in a poem, usually marked by spacing that separates one of these line groupings from another one...