I Love Literary Terms!
Across
- 3. a humorous imitation of a work ('Weird Al songs)
- 6. the method an author uses to reveal characters' personalities
- 8. the repetition of initial consonant sounds ('Slimey's sister sloppy')
- 10. comparing two things without using like or as
- 11. the sequence of events in a story
- 13. who is telling the story ('First person, third person')
- 14. the overall feeling a reader gets from a work (happy, sad, creepy)
- 17. rhyming pattern at the end of lines of poetry
- 19. when the author interrupts the story to tell something in the past
- 20. an object that has a deeper meaning
- 21. the time and place of a story
- 22. comparing two things using like or as
- 23. the character who works against the main character('bad guy')
Down
- 1. making something inhuman sound human
- 2. the repetition of vowel soundsÍž ('I lie down by the side')
- 4. the use of words to imitate sounds ('whoop, bark')
- 5. a poem's rhythmical pattern, a repetition of stressed/unstressed syllables
- 7. a struggle between two opposing forces
- 9. the main character in a story ('good guy')
- 12. when the author gives hints or clues about what will happen later
- 15. the way a person speaks based on where he/she lives
- 16. extreme exaggeration ('I'm so hungry I could eat my arm!')
- 18. the main message of a story