Literary Elements- advanced
Across
- 4. Extreme exaggeration to add meaning
- 11. Reader is given background information about the setting, characters, and relationships in order to better understand the plot of the literary work
- 12. The bad guy in a story
- 14. The type or category to which a literary work belongs
- 16. Returning to an earlier point in the story to make the present easier to understand
- 20. Using hints within the reading to show what is to come in the literary work
- 21. A phrase that consists of two words that have opposite meanings
- 22. When something unexpected happens, different events than what was predicted
- 26. A direct comparison of two different things
- 27. Word choice used to create a specific effect in a literary work
- 29. an intentional use of understatement that renders an ironic effect
- 30. The repetition of vowel sounds in a phrase or line
- 31. the word we use to describe another thing is closely linked to that particular thing, but is not a part of it
- 32. The part in a literary work at which the conflict comes to its highest point
- 33. A comparison of two different things using “like” or “as”
- 34. repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase
- 35. a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.
- 36. of view The perspective the literary work is told
Down
- 1. Language used to appeal to the five sense (touch, taste, smell, hearing, sight)
- 2. When a tangible thing (object, person, place) is used to represent something intangible
- 3. How the author develops characters by describing him or her physically, mentally, emotionally, and gives them their personalities
- 5. action The process the story follows as it builds to its main conflict
- 6. Location and time which the literary work takes place
- 7. The repetition of the 1st consonant sound of the words
- 8. The author’s attitude toward the subject of the literary work
- 9. In writing or speech, the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect
- 10. The good guy in a story
- 13. a literary device in which a part of something represents the whole, or it may use a whole to represent a part
- 15. The main idea or underlying meaning explored by a literary work
- 17. A reference to something well-known that exists outside of the literary work
- 18. Any person, animal, or object that plays a role within a literary work
- 19. Words whose actual sound imitates its meaning
- 23. Giving non-human objects human characteristics
- 24. The problem that occurs between two characters in a literary work
- 25. Speaking between characters in a literary work
- 28. Part in a literary work when loose ends are tied up and questions are answered