EOC Literary Terms
Across
- 4. The position of the narrator in the story
- 5. How a text makes you as the reader feel
- 9. Feeling or emotion conveyed by the speaker/author
- 11. The time and place a story occurs
- 13. Fact based and without bias
- 14. Two or more characters talking to one another
- 15. A problem or struggle happening within the mind or heart of a character
- 16. The repetition of the same consonant sound
- 18. Descriptive language that appeals to any of the five senses
- 21. The way a text is built or put together
- 22. A non-human thing is given a human quality
- 24. Any language that is used in a non-literal way
- 25. The implied meaning or feeling of a word
- 26. When the outcome is the opposite of what is expected or intended
- 27. When the reader knows information characters do not know
Down
- 1. The choices an author makes in how s/he describes a character
- 2. A comparison between two dissimilar things without using like or as
- 3. To hint or suggest
- 6. Dictionary definition of a word
- 7. When an author gives hints and clues about events that will happen later in the text
- 8. When one thing stands for or represents something else
- 9. The central message or lesson of a text
- 10. idea The main idea of a text
- 12. A comparison between two dissimilar things using like or as
- 17. An extreme exaggeration or understatement
- 19. A reference to a famous person, place, or event
- 20. A problem between a character an an outside force
- 23. To make an educated guess based on information provided in the text and your prior knowledge