Ms.barnes Homework

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain (6)
  2. 5. The basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (5)
  3. 7. Extravagant exaggeration (9)
  4. 10. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse (12)
  5. 11. A message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events (9)
  6. 14. The part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers (7)
  7. 16. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds (4)

Down

  1. 1. Literature in metrical form (6)
  2. 2. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms (3)
  3. 4. Port city in southwestern Ireland (8)
  4. 6. Unrhymed ___ without a consistent metrical pattern (9)
  5. 8. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme (6)
  6. 9. A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem (6)
  7. 12. Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (5)
  8. 13. An epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines (5)
  9. 15. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard (4)