LITERARY TERMS- FOUNDATIONS UNIT Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 9. Characters, and settings are introduced.
- 11. INCIDENT, First event that starts the conflict.
- 12. A character who experiences character growth and change throughout the story
- 14. A phrase that includes two opposite ideas that present a seeming impossibility yet on closer examination they seem to make a kind of sense.
- 16. The use of this literary device uses hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in the story.
- 19. When the exact opposite of what is expected to happen occurs.
- 20. When a character whose personality, thoughts, etc., do not change throughout the story.
- 21. Man vs man is an ______conflict.
- 23. The central character in the story.
- 25. The main idea of a story, including the “big idea” and what the author says about it is called the ______.
- 27. The narrator is an outsider who can report only what he or she sees and hears. This point of view is called Third Person _____.
- 28. The type of irony in which the exact opposite of what we would expect to happen to a character or in a situation happens.
- 29. A comparison between 2 unlike objects or ideas using the words "like" or "as".
- 30. ACTION, The part of the plot when conflicts are resolved, the story is ending.
- 31. An object or idea that really means a lot more than what it looks like on the surface.
- 33. A figure of speech that is an exaggeration or overstatement.
- 35. The events that make up a story is called the ______.
- 36. _____ person point of view uses the "I" and "we" pronouns.
- 37. A character who is not fully described.
- 38. Third-person point of view called this_____ is when the reader has a “god-like” point of view. The reader can see the thoughts and actions of every character in the story.
Down
- 1. A figure of speech in which the author gives human traits, characteristics, emotions, or actions to something that is not human.
- 2. Man vs ________ the character is in conflict with the values, beliefs, or laws of the _________.
- 3. Whatever or whoever is opposing the main character in the conflict.
- 4. The author’s feelings toward a character shown through diction and word choice is called the ______.
- 5. The final turning point where the most intense moment of the conflict is reached.
- 6. A character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight particular qualities in the 1st character.
- 7. Third-person _______ is the point of view where the reader can see into only one character’s mind from the narrator’s standpoint.
- 8. Describes a character whose background, motives, and other features are fully described or explained.
- 10. The type of conflict that is Man vs self.
- 13. The type of irony in which the audience knows something that the characters do not.
- 15. Conflict concludes and the loose ends of a fictional text are all resolved.
- 17. Man vs ____ is when the character is in conflict with natural elements or animals.
- 18. A figure of speech in which the author refers to a piece of famous art, literature, or an important historical person or even.
- 22. The type of irony in which a character says something opposite of what he/she means.
- 24. When 2 words that are opposites are right next to each other in a sentence.
- 26. A comparison between two different ideas or objects.
- 32. How the reader feels after reading the story.
- 34. ACTION, Central conflict begins and the minor conflicts that lead up to the climax happens is called the ______ _____.
- 39. Language that is described to appeal to one of the 5 senses.