Poetry

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.

1.
i e i n
Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
2.
s e
A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
3.
e r e
English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers
4.
e
A line of metrical text
5.
c
A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
6.
e h i
7.
r t
A repeated pattern of beats or sounds in music.
8.
l
A way of expressing something that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people
9.
e
Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines
10.
a d
A narrative song with a recurrent refrain
11.
m e
An electronic ___ device
12.
y a
13.
a n
The message that is intended or expressed or signified
14.
u f
The legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century
15.
i
An epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
16.
e t
A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally
17.
s m
A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds
18.
t p e a
Using words that imitate the sound they denote
19.
k
20.
s e
Feeling of pressure or worry
21.
o