Literary Terms

2. A feeling of anxious uncertainty about the events in a literary work
4. When what is said opposite of what is meant
7. An exaggeration for effect
10. Spoken words between characters
13. When the narrator is a character in the story and uses the pronoun "I"
15. A series of events that leads a literary work to the climax
16. An object that stands for or represents something other than itself
17. When the opposite of what is expected takes place
20. The point of view where the narrator know everything that happens, including what characters are thinking
22. The use of words that imitate sounds
24. Introduction of setting, characters, and the basic situation at the beginning of a story
25. The writer's attitude towards the subject and characters
26. When a story's time sequence is interrupted to relate an event from an earlier time
28. A person or animal that takes part in the action of a story
29. Poetry that is characterized by its informality, permitting almost any usage of rhythm and having no rhyme

1. Giving non-human or inanimate objects human characteristics
3. A comparison between two things without using like or as
5. The main character in a literary work
6. The feeling a piece of work creates in the reader
8. A reference to a famous person, place or thing
9. Repetition of beginning consonant sounds
11. Events that occur after the climax
12. The highest point of intensity or the turning point of a story
14. When the audience knows more than the characters or actors know
17. A comparison between two tings using like or as
18. The central idea of a story, or the general idea about life that is revealed throughout the story
19. Struggles between opposing forces
21. Giving the reader hints or clues as to what will happen later in a story
23. A poem that tells a story
27. The time and place in which a story takes place