25 LITERARY TERMS, ELEMENTS, &DEVICES

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