ACROSS

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The character in the poem who is speaking

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A pattern of rhyme in a poem labeled alphabetically at the ends of lines

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The central idea and meaning of a literary work

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The repetition of important syllables

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Tells a story

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Compound words that take the place of simpler terms in an attempt to be more descriptive

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Two successive lines, usually in the same meter (same number of beats per line) linked by end rhyme

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The inspiration that motivates a poet, artist, or thinker

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Figure of speech in which someone absent or dead, or something nonhuman, is a addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply

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A repeated line, group of lines, or entire stanza, normally at some fixed position in a poem

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A figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal and object or a concept

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The use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning with their sounds

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A four line stanza

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A comparison between two things without the use of like or as

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A pattern of number of beats or syllables per line

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Traditionally, the sonnet is a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter

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A division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains; the most common is the quatrain

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A repeated word or phrase throughout a poem

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When the thought of one poem runs into the next line without a break

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A reference to a work of literature or to an actual event, person or place which the author expects the audience to recognize

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A comparison between two essentially unlike things using like or as

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The repetion of begining consonant sounds (map-moon or know-nap)

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The representation of sense experiences through language

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The writer's or speaker's attitude toward his subject