ELA 10 Lit. and Poetic Terms

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Across
  1. 5. a statement that appears self-contradictory but reveals a kind of truth
  2. 7. a very old, imaginative pattern that appears in literature across cultures and is repeated through ages: can be a character, plot, image, theme, or setting
  3. 9. a figurative work in which a surface narrative carries a secondary, symbolic, or metaphorical meaning
  4. 10. a comparison made between two things to show how they are alike
  5. 12. a very brief story told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something
  6. 16. a reference to a well-known person, place, event literary work, or work of art (most common = Shakespeare & the Bible)
  7. 17. the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds, especially in words close together
  8. 19. a type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in attempt to bring about change
  9. 21. a fourteen-line poem usually written in iambic pentameter that has one of two basic structures: Shakespearean or Petrarchan
  10. 22. two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry
  11. 24. a descriptive word of phrase that is frequently used to characterize a person or thing
  12. 25. a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else, implies a direct comparison
  13. 27. use of words that imitate sounds
  14. 29. a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase
  15. 30. a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
  16. 31. a work that makes fun of another work by initiating some aspect of the writer’s style
  17. 33. an elaborate metaphor or other figure of speech that compares two things that are startlingly different
  18. 34. pentameter a line of poetry that contains five iambic feet
  19. 35. a speaker’s or writer’s choice of words
  20. 36. descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures for the reader
  21. 37. a brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life
  22. 38. an anonymous traditional story that is basically religious in nature and usually serves to explain a belief, ritual, or mysterious natural phenomenon
Down
  1. 1. repetition of identical initial consonant sounds in successive or closely associated syllables within a group of words
  2. 2. a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole
  3. 3. a way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group of of the inhabitants of a certain geographical area
  4. 4. A group of consecutive lines that form a structural unit in a poem
  5. 6. a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration, or overstatement, for effect
  6. 8. the opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero or protagonist, in a story
  7. 11. the repetition of the same or similar final consonant sounds on accented syllables or important words
  8. 13. the running on of sense from the end of one line of verse into the next, without a punctuated pause
  9. 14. a pause or break within a line of poetry
  10. 15. a character who acts as a contrast to another character
  11. 18. use of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur
  12. 20. attributing (giving the attribute or characteristic) human qualities to an animal or creature
  13. 23. a figure of speech in which a person, place or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it
  14. 26. the natural, rhythmic rise and fall of a language as it is normally spoken
  15. 28. the central character in a story; the one who initiates or drives that action
  16. 32. a figure of speech in which like or as is used to make an indirect comparison between two basically unlike ideas
  17. 36. a situation or statement characterized by significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant