Literary Devices Crossword
Across
- 2. Shift from serious/elevated to comic/trivial
- 3. All 4 types: 1st person, omniscient, 3rd person, objective- cold detachment
- 5. feeling created by the story. Through dialogue, descriptive action, and imagery
- 8. Defect in character that leads to downfall
- 12. Writers attitude toward his/her work
- 13. no clear outcome, result, or resolved conflict
- 14. story or poem with an underlying or hidden meaning, usually a moral or political one
- 16. A pause in a line of verse- characters pause in his/her speech
- 18. Concrete details/figures of speech that help the reader visualize, paints a picture in the reader's mind
- 20. highest point of emotional intensity- turning point in the protagonist's fortune
- 22. implied comparison- a word or phrase is applied to another thing to suggest they are similar
- 23. central idea, usually implied rather than stated; must be a full, complete statement
- 25. major character or thing in opposition with protagonist
Down
- 1. Solely to entertain, takes us away from the real world- flat characters, melodramatic plots- travel stories
- 4. moment of realization/insight of protagonist
- 6. stated/implied lesson
- 7. bears the blame for the mistakes/sins of another; unfairly blamed
- 9. timeworn expression or idea, a failure of imagination, overdone story idea or characters
- 10. heroic qualities
- 11. comparing 2 things using like or as
- 15. 'dream like', distorts the subconscious mind, not real
- 17. vocabulary used by the writer
- 19. Quality in writing that evokes a feeling of pity or sadness, convincing your readers by using emotion
- 21. Reference to a presumably familiar figure, place, or event, from history, mythology, literature, or the Bible
- 24. action the events preceding the climax