Literary terms
Across
- 5. clue that tells you how an author feels about the story
- 7. technique where reader is informed of something that happened before the story started
- 10. direct comparison without like or as
- 13. tone where the speaker's meaning is opposite to what they say
- 14. central character in a story
- 15. message the author is trying to communicate with the reader
- 17. assuming something from what you know
- 20. allows reader to know more about the situation than the characters
- 23. part of the story leading to conclusion
- 24. technique where the reader is informed about what events will occur later
- 28. use of language to create an unrealistic effect
- 32. person in a story
- 34. comparison when something that is not human is given human characteristics
- 38. long story with a main plot, subplot, and lot of characters
- 39. comparison between two things using like or as
- 40. exaggerations that cannot happen
- 42. time and place of a story
Down
- 1. image, object, or character which stands for a deeper and wider meaning
- 2. technique to keep reader wondering what will happen next
- 3. highest point of the story, where the conflict takes a turn
- 4. conclusion of the story
- 6. figure of speech in which words with opposite meanings are used together
- 8. obstacles that increases tension
- 9. has a plot, relatively short, no subplots, and small number of characters
- 11. true story
- 12. part of the story where tension rises
- 16. character who opposes the protagonist
- 18. method a writer uses to tell us about the characters in the story
- 19. speaker telling the story, sometimes one of the characters in the story
- 21. description related to the five senses
- 22. overall feeling created in the story
- 25. true story of someone's life, author is not the main characters
- 26. what inspires a character to act a certain way
- 27. repetition of beginning consonant sound
- 29. true story of someone's life, author is main character
- 30. way author uses language, word choice, sentence length, and sounds to create a story
- 31. perspective from which the story is told
- 33. repetition of vowel sound
- 35. clash of people, forces, or ideas
- 36. chain of events in a story
- 37. chain of events tied to the main story
- 41. writer's reason for writing the story