Literary Terminology

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Across
  1. 2. creation of words that imitate natural sounds
  2. 4. placing two things side by side to highlight differences
  3. 6. compares two things using "like" or "as"
  4. 8. creates heightened effect through exaggeration
  5. 12. allows writers to paint a picture in readers' minds
  6. 13. pairing two words together that are opposite
  7. 14. using the same word over and over again
  8. 15. states that one thing is another thing
  9. 17. use of informal words in writing or speech
  10. 19. attributing human emotion to the weather
  11. 20. a sentence made up of two simple sentences joined by a conjunction
  12. 21. used to give an hint of what is to come in the story
  13. 22. inanimate objects are given human qualities
Down
  1. 1. group of words through the repetition of "s" sounds
  2. 3. a sentence with one independent clause
  3. 5. using symbols to express ideas
  4. 7. contrast between expectation and reality
  5. 9. compares two things that are not alike that extends over paragraphs
  6. 10. a series of three words or phrases
  7. 11. the narrative voice through which you tell a story
  8. 16. a scene that takes place before a story begins
  9. 17. a plot device which the story ends unresolved
  10. 18. repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words