Literary Elements and Figurative Language Devices

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Across
  1. 1. The time and place of a literary work that establishes its context.
  2. 4. The speed at which the story moves between exposition The parts of the story that set the stage and give readers background information.
  3. 9. Describes something by comparing it to something else. Often, writers use something tangible/concrete to describe something intangible/abstract.
  4. 10. The purposeful literary choices an author makes to distinguish his/her writing.
  5. 11. The narrator is not a character in the story (uses 3rd person pronouns such as: they, he, she, theirs, etc.)
  6. 12. Hints of what is to come in the action of a story.
  7. 13. A struggle between opposing forces in a story or play, usually resolved by the end of the work. The conflict may occur within a character as well as between characters or between a character and some force- society, fate, nature, etc.
  8. 14. The main character of a literary work around whom the events of the plot revolve and with whom readers are intended to connect and identify with.
  9. 17. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.
  10. 18. An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself. Often connected to the themes.
  11. 19. The perspective from which the story is told. Shapes the meaning of the story.
  12. 21. A character or force against which another character struggles.
  13. 22. The sequence of events; what happens in the story
  14. 23. The atmosphere that pervades a literary work with the intention of evoking a certain emotion or feeling from the audience.
Down
  1. 2. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work.
  2. 3. The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work, different than the author.
  3. 5. People (or things with human qualities) in a work. May be major or minor, static (unchanging) or dynamic (capable of change).
  4. 6. A deep idea or issue about human nature explored in the story. The big idea or overall meaning.
  5. 7. In the plot of a story or play, the action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution.
  6. 8. A set of conflicts and crises that lead up to the climax. Readers are anticipating some kind of event or epiphany during this stage of the story.
  7. 15. The sorting out or unraveling of a plot at the end of a play, novel, or story. The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work, different than the author.
  8. 16. The turning point of the plot- one marking a change in the protagonist’s affairs. The climax represents the point of greatest tension and excitement in the work.
  9. 17. The narrator is a character or an observer (uses 1st person pronouns such as: I, me, we, our, us, etc.)
  10. 20. A contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen in life and in literature.