Literary Terms (E1)

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Across
  1. 2. When something happens/is said that contrasts our expectations, often in a humorous way
  2. 9. Where and when a story takes place along with the context surrounding the story
  3. 11. How the reader feels while reading
  4. 14. The person/voice that is telling the story
  5. 16. An exaggeration
  6. 17. The people in a story
  7. 20. Writing something over and over again; often for emphasis
  8. 21. Comparing two things using like/as
Down
  1. 1. An exaggeration
  2. 3. Descriptions that appeal to the five senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, feeling)
  3. 4. An umbrella term for language that doesn’t really mean what it says
  4. 5. Comparing two things NOT using like/as
  5. 6. How the author feels while writing
  6. 7. Giving human actions/characteristics to animals or non-human things
  7. 8. The categories in which we divide literature (and movies, TV shows, etc.)
  8. 10. The struggle between two opposing forces in a text
  9. 12. Sound words
  10. 13. When an author hints at something that will happen later in a text
  11. 15. The structure of related actions, selected and arranged by the author
  12. 18. A reference to something else in a text such as a historical figure or event
  13. 19. The repetition of consonant sounds (any letter that isn’t a, e, i, o, u) at the beginning of words