Literary Terms Vocab
Across
- 2. All knowing narrator
- 4. Irony - When the reader knows something the characters don't
- 8. Character vs... (large group of people or condition (poverty, political issues)
- 10. Why characters do what they do
- 12. Conflict is resolved; the outcome
- 14. Message from a story
- 15. The author jumps back to something that happened in the past
- 17. Irony - Sarcasm
- 18. Fully developed; we get to see the complexity of the character
- 19. Beginning of the story; introduces characters, setting, situation
- 21. One-dimensional; we only see one side or trait of the character
- 23. Characterization - What the author SHOWS us about the character.
- 28. Immediate fallout of the climax
- 29. Story is told from beginning to end
- 30. Point of View 'I' or 'Me'
Down
- 1. Character or force working against the main character
- 3. Irony - Contrast between expectation and reality
- 5. Events that raise the tension in a story
- 6. Narrator cannot see all characters
- 7. Character vs... (a natural force i.e. flood)
- 9. Character vs... (emotional, intellectual conflicts)
- 11. Main character in a story
- 13. Character vs... (another individual in the story)
- 16. Clues that hint at events that will happen later in the story
- 20. A thing that carries a deeper meaning/message
- 22. Highest point of action
- 24. The feeling the writing gives the reader
- 25. Description that appeals to the five senses
- 26. Characterization - What the author TELLS us about the character.
- 27. Character vs... (a battle against destiny)
- 31. Point of View 'He' or 'She'