Literary Terms for English Final
Across
- 3. also called a contrast, the deliberate contrast of things
- 4. alteration in appearance or character
- 6. action that takes place before the story opens
- 7. a brief story about an interesting incident
- 10. informal, not used in formal writing
- 12. a story or visual image with a second distinct meaning partially hidden
- 13. speech addressed to a dead/absent person
- 14. indirect reference
- 16. written in variable rhythmic cadences
- 18. tells a story
- 19. recurring theme
- 20. implied or additional meaning that a word or phrase impacts
- 21. repetition of vowel sounds
Down
- 1. in literary form; which only one speaks
- 2. the direct meaning of a word/expression
- 5. compression that is made to explain something that is unfamiliar by presenting an example of something similar is similar/parallel to it in some way
- 8. conclusion reached through logic
- 9. self-contradictory sentence which is actually true
- 11. a combo of 2 usually contradictory terms in a compressed paradox
- 13. repetition of sounds
- 15. written in iambic pentameters
- 17. harsh sounds
- 19. a figure of speech that substitutes the name of a related object, person, or idea for the subject