Literary Terms, Elements & Devices

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Across
  1. 1. when the protagonist is opposed by some person or force.
  2. 5. a word or group of words in a literary work which appeal to one or more senses.
  3. 8. expresses the authors attitude toward his or her subject.
  4. 11. into the middle of things.
  5. 13. refers to playing around with words such that the meaning implied by a sentence or word is actually different from the literal meaning derived.
  6. 14. in literature, the narrator or the storyteller, of a literary work created by the author.
  7. 16. the sequence of events and happenings that make up a story.
  8. 17. the hero or central character.
  9. 19. a figure of speech in which something non human is given human characteristics.
  10. 22. repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs.
  11. 23. the part of a drama which follows the climax and leads to the resolution.
  12. 24. a combination of contradicting terms.
  13. 26. a reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature.
  14. 27. choice of words, especially with regard to correctness, clearness, or effectiveness.
  15. 29. a common thread or repeated idea that is incorporated throughout a literary work.
  16. 30. a type of drama which is preeminently the story of one person, the hero.
  17. 31. a major subdivision in a poem.
  18. 32. the time and place in which a story unfolds.
Down
  1. 1. the method a writer uses to reveal the personality of a character in a literary work.
  2. 2. language a word or phrase that departs from everyday literal language for the sake of comparison,emphasis, clarity, or freshness.
  3. 3. a far-fetched simile or metaphor, this occurs when the speaker compares two highly dissimilar things
  4. 4. one who tells a story, the speaker or the "voice" of an oral or written work.
  5. 6. a recurring object, concept, or structure in a work of literature.
  6. 7. comparison is made WITHOUT the use of "like" or "as".
  7. 9. refers to the actual way in which words and sentences are placed together in the writing.
  8. 10. the atmosphere or feeling created by a literary work, partly by a description of the objects or by the style of the descriptions.
  9. 12. a figure of speech in which an overstatement or exaggeration occurs.
  10. 15. one who speaks.
  11. 18. a device in literature where an object represents an idea.
  12. 19. the narrators position in relation to the story being told.
  13. 20. a method used to build suspense by providing hints of what is to come.
  14. 21. opposes the protagonist.
  15. 25. the point at which a very significant change occurs.
  16. 28. a situation or statement that sees to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, does not.
  17. 32. makes a comparison between two otherwise unalike objects with the words "like" or "as".