Poetry Terms Criss-Cross

a comparison using like or as

• metaphor

• simile

• personifcation

• foot

a group of lines arranged together

• stanza

• form

• onomatopoeia

• rhyme

the use of very descriptive, sonsory language

• quatrain

• meter

• idiom

• imagery

the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem

• meter

• rhythm

• speaker

• hyperbole

an eight-line stanza

• metaphor

• quatrain

• octave

• speaker

a "fixed" saying that has a certain meaning, unrelated to the actual image brought to mind by the phrase

• form

• anthropomorphization

• consonance

• idiom

the repetition of vowel sounds

• assonance

• consonance

• imagery

• symbol

a reference to a different work

• form

• symbol

• hyperbole

• allusion

the repetition of consonant sounds

• consonance

• assonance

• personification

• simile

words that carry opposite meanings to create an image

• foot

• octove

• irony

• meter