25 LITERARY TERMS, ELEMENTS, &DEVICES
Across
- 3. A rhetorical and literary technique where an author or speaker intentionally uses exaggeration and overstatement for emphasis and effect.
- 4. A literary device that gives human characteristics to nonhuman things or inanimate objects.
- 7. The perspective from which the story is told.
- 8. The linguistic choices a writer makes to effectively convey an idea, a point of view, or tell a story
- 9. the objective meaning of a word.
- 14. The use of any person, situation, or object to represent an idea of some sort.
- 16. The act of creating and describing characters in literature.
- 18. The general feeling or atmosphere that a piece of writing creates within the reader.
- 19. The organization of a story's various elements, including plot, characters, and themes.
- 20. A figure of speech that directly compares one thing to another for rhetorical effect.
- 21. The set of rules that determines the arrangement of words in a sentence.
- 22. SMILE is an acronym that stands for Structure, Meaning, Imagery, Language, and Effect.
- 23. An implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text.
- 24. The time, place, and environment in which a story occurs.
Down
- 1. The one who tells the story.
- 2. The main character in a work of literature.
- 5. The voice behind a poem or any written work.
- 6. The attitude that a character or narrator or author takes towards a given subject.
- 10. Using or creating words that imitate or name a sound.
- 11. An implied meaning that's associated with a word in addition to its literal meaning.
- 12. A literary device that presents the struggle between two sides due to a disagreement in values, desires, motivations etc.
- 13. Words that trigger the reader to recall images, or mental pictures, that engage one of the five senses: sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch.
- 15. occurs when a moment of dialogue or plot contradicts what the audience expects from a character or story.
- 17. An idea or topic expanded in a discourse, discussion, etc.
- 23. The character or force that opposes the protagonist.