8th Grade Literary Terms
Across
- 3. Point of greatest interest in a story
- 5. Something concrete that represents something else
- 6. Giving human characteristics to non-living objects
- 8. Author's attitude toward the subject matter
- 9. Interruption in the narrative to show an episode from the past
- 10. Comparison using "like" or "as"
- 11. Main character
- 13. repeating a word or phrase to stress its importance
- 15. Someone who serves as a contrast to another character
Down
- 1. Struggle between opposing forces
- 2. Reference to a well-known person, place, thing, idea, or event
- 4. Extreme exaggeration
- 7. Repetition of initial sounds
- 12. Use of sensory details that relate to the senses that create pictures in our minds
- 14. Contrast between what appears to be and what really is