Literary Elements

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Across
  1. 2. is the fall of a narrative in which the conflict set in motion during the rising action and racing its high point in the climax is settled or at least significantly altered, and the story moves swiftly toward its conclusion or denouement.
  2. 4. a quotation an author places at the beginning of a literary work that often suggests its theme.
  3. 6. the central unifying point or idea that is made concrete developed and explored in the action and the imagination of a work of fiction
  4. 7. The meaning of a word implies or suggests the specific associations the word calls to mind, and by the tone in which it is used in writing, it is often an unbelievable deception that the reader agrees to believe.
  5. 9. the written presentation of words spoken by characters in a narrative; used to introduce the conflict.
  6. 10. A narrative drawn from an author's imagination, made up of a plot imagined events involving imagined characters in imagined or imaginatively reconstructed settings, lies told with the tolerance, consent, and even complicity of the listener or reader. The word fiction comes from the word lat ficio an act of fashioning, shaping and making.
  7. 12. A story or fantasy that appeals to our sense of the marvelous, in which we suspend disbelief.
  8. 15. the conclusion of an action or plot in which the falling action is brought to a close and the outcome or outcomes of the climax are present to the reader; from a French word meaning the untying of a knot.
  9. 16. the presentation of background information that a reader must be aware of, especially of situations that exist and events that have occurred before the action of a story begins.
  10. 19. A person, event, or thing that stands for or represents by association.
  11. 20. Action the event or events that present and develop the conflict whose dramatization is the story's action.
  12. 21. the readers or audiences awareness of a reality that differed from the reality the characters perceive or the literal meaning of the author's word.
  13. 22. The reader’s awareness of a discrepancy between a character’s perception of his or her own situation or activities or of their consequences and the true nature of that situation or those consequences.
  14. 23. At its simplest, the things that happen in a story's plot—what the characters do and what is done to them. A story may have more than one action, but a successful short story usually has one identifiable.
  15. 24. The events of a narrative that follow the climax and resolve the conflict that reached its highest point in that climax before bringing the story to its conclusion or denouement.
  16. 26. a technique of exposition in which the flow of events in a narrative is interrupted to present to the reader an earlier incident or situation that has a bearing on the story of rim or its characters.
  17. 27. the telling of a story by a person who was involved in or directly observed the action narrated
  18. 28. the place and time of a story.
Down
  1. 1. the use of certain lifelike details to give an imaginative narrative work the semblance of reality or actuality
  2. 3. Language that describes ideas or qualities rather than specific, observable people, places, and things, which are described in concrete language
  3. 4. a showing forth or sudden revelation of the true nature of a character or situation through a specific event that causes the reader to see the significance of that character or situation in a new light.
  4. 5. any person who plays a part in a narrative. Characters may be flat or dynamic.
  5. 8. the telling of a story by a detached usually anonymous narrator.
  6. 11. the outcome or resolution of plot at the end of a story. Also called denouement, as it may until or resolve the plot complications encountered during the rising action.
  7. 13. A narrative in which characters, places, things, and events represent general qualities and their interactions are meant to reveal a general or abstract truth. Such characters, places, things, and events thusoften function as symbols of the concepts or ideas referred to.
  8. 14. the protagonist of a story or other narrative; the main character whose conflict is presented and resolved in the action or plot.
  9. 17. the main characters of a narrative. The heroes.
  10. 18. the opposition presented to the main character by another character or force.
  11. 25. An implied or indirect reference to something with which the reader is supposed to be familiar