lit terms

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Across
  1. 1. the motivation behind the creation of a piece of literature; it may be to inform, explain, describe, define, to persuade or to teach a life lesson
  2. 3. the arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side-by-side or in similar narrative moment
  3. 4. a play on words; it may refer to different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings
  4. 6. person narrative point of view the narrator tells the story as he, she or they, explaining the story as it unfolds as an outsider sees it
  5. 8. a combination of two words that appear to contradict each other
  6. 9. the representation of an object for an abstract idea. For example, in Lord of the Flies, the conch (an object) is a symbol of democracy (an abstract idea)
  7. 10. time, place, and circumstances in which the story or events take place
  8. 12. what is happening in the writing; the content level
  9. 14. a cutting remark, written or spoken, designed to make fun of or hurt its object
  10. 15. a full sentence, written by the reader, which exposes the “universal truth” of the novel or selection. It does not contain references to the plot, characters, time of the novel or the reader and his/her time frame. Pronouns should be neutral. Statement should not be clichés (overworked expressions) – nor should they be facts or commands
  11. 19. hints or clues to the outcome of a story
Down
  1. 2. a method of narration where the narrator tells the story as an event of the past and therefore knows the ending before the retelling of the story starts. This might allow the narrator to understand things that the characters in the story do not
  2. 4. a contradictory or absurd statement that exposes a fundamental truth
  3. 5. the main idea, moral or message of a text, also known as the central insight
  4. 7. a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program
  5. 11. the narrator (who is not a character in the story) is all knowing and describes the thoughts and feelings of all characters
  6. 13. a feeling of excitement and curiosity created by the writing
  7. 16. a repeated pattern in literature
  8. 17. the overall feeling that the writer, though the diction of the selection, produces in the reader
  9. 18. the author’s attitude towards the subject, characters and reader as expressed through deliberately selected diction