Literary Terms Crossword
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
 
 
Down: 1) A story written to be acted in front of an audience. (Play)2) The overall emotion created by a work of literature.4) The attitude that a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character. It is conveyed through the writier's choice of words. (The story may have a humorous nature, another story may have a serious nature)7) Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme.8) The idea about life revealed in a work of literature. It can be expressed with one word or a sentence. (love) or (It is important to listen to your parents)10) The feelings (emotions) and associations that a word suggests.11) A character struggles against some outside force such as society, a storm, or a grizzly bear.14) The use of clues to suggest events that will happen later in the plot (story).15) A group of words repeated at intervals in a poem, song, or speech.16) A marvelous change from one shape or form to another one.17) The uncertainty or anxiety the reader feels when about what will happen next in the story.18) An interrution in the action of a plot (story) to tell what happened at an earlier time. 20) A figure of speech in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human.22) The story of a person's life, written by that person.24) A fictional story that is usually between 100-500 pages long. 26) Part of a drama (play) where the character speaks alone on stage.27) A conflict that takes place in the character's mind. A struggle with their conscience, wants, needs, desires.28) An exaggerated, fanciful story that gets "taller and taller," more and more far fetched, the more it is told and retold.29) A brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral or gives a practical lesson about how to get along in life.30) Tha vantagepoint from which a story is told.31) A kind of ryhthmic, compressed language that uses figues of speech and imagery designed to appeal to emotion and imagination.33) A comparison between two unlike things, using "like, as, than".37) The overall mood or emotion of a work of literature.40) The literal dictionary definition of a word.43) The voice talking in a poem.44) An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing.46) A contrast between expectations and reality.51) The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in close together in a poem. (team, screen) Across: 3) Character that does not change much in the story or work.5) The series of related events that make up a story. (what happens)6) A struggle or clash between opposing characters or opposing forces.9) Pont of view which is "all knowing". The narrator knows everything about all the characters and how the story will end.12) A conversation between two or more characters.13) The time and place in which the events of a story take place.19) The story of a real person's life told by another person.21) The most important idea expressed in a paragraph or essay.23) The use of words with sounds that echo their sense.25) A musical quality produced by the repetitonof stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of certain other sound patterns. (soft soft loud/soft soft loud/ soft soft loud)29) One of the characters, using the personal pronoun "I", is telling the story. 32) A reference to a statement, place, event from literature, history, religion, mythology,politics, sports, or science.34) A story that is made up rather than true. (Fantasy)35) A story, with no known author, that originally was passed down from one generation to another by word of mouth.36) In a poem, a group of consecutive llines that forms a single unit.38) A story that explains something about the world and typically involves gods or other superhuman beings.39) A person or animal who takes part in a the action of story, play, or literary work.41) A humorous five-line verse that has a regular meter and rhyme scheme. (aa,bb)42) The kind of writing that creates a clear image of something, usually be using details that appeal to one or more of the senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste.45) A way of speakinf that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people.47) The narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of only one character. Readers observe the action of a story through the eyes of only one charaacter in the story.48) Prose writing that deals with real people, events, and places without changing any facts. (Reality)49) Language that appeals to the senses. Most are visual.50) A character who changes as a result of the story's events.52) The repetiton of the same sound in words that are close together.53) A person, place, thing, or event that has its own meaning and stands for something beyond itself as well. (dove=peace)54) A fictional prose narrative (story) that is usually10-20 pages long.55) A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and is not literally true.
 

 

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