Poetry

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. A repeated pattern of beats or sounds in music. (6)
  2. 5. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (6)
  3. 7. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed (3)
  4. 8. Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (5)
  5. 9. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme (6)
  6. 10. A line of metrical text (5)
  7. 15. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse (12)
  8. 16. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds (4)

Down

  1. 1. Feeling of pressure or worry (6)
  2. 2. Using words that imitate the sound they denote (12)
  3. 3. English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (11)
  4. 6. An electronic ___ device (6)
  5. 11. The message that is intended or expressed or signified (7)
  6. 12. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain (6)
  7. 13. An epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines (5)
  8. 14. A way of expressing something that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people (5)