Literary Terms

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Across
  1. 2. action/results or effects of the climax of a literary work
  2. 5. Irony/when there is a disparity between what is expected and what actually occurs
  3. 10. or category to which a literary work belongs
  4. 11. method of returning to an earlier point in time for the purpose of making the present clearer
  5. 13. manner in which an author develops characters and their personalities
  6. 15. that appeals to the five senses
  7. 17. in a poem; the person or thing that is speaking
  8. 23. between two or more opposing forces
  9. 24. that consists of two words that are contradictory
  10. 25. direct comparison of dissimilar objects, usually using like or as
  11. 28. of speech in which non-human things are given human characteristics
  12. 29. choice to create a specific effect
  13. 30. exaggeration to add meaning
  14. 31. of similar or identical sounds
  15. 32. turning point in a literary work
  16. 33. time and place of a literary work
  17. 35. literal meaning of a word; there are no emotions, values, or images associated with denotative meaning
  18. 36. author’s attitude toward the subject of a work
  19. 38. main character in a literary work
  20. 39. of what is to come in a literary work
Down
  1. 1. reference to something well-known that exists outside the literary work
  2. 2. Language/language that represents one thing in terms of something dissimilar
  3. 3. dramatic device in which a character is alone and speaks his or her thoughts aloud
  4. 4. lyric poem consisting of fourteen lines
  5. 5. (object, person, place) used to represent something else
  6. 6. underlying main idea of a literary work
  7. 7. Irony/when the speaker says one thing but means the opposite
  8. 8. Irony/when the reader or audience knows something a character does not
  9. 9. of the initial consonant sounds of words
  10. 12. of lines forming a unit in a poem
  11. 14. essential background information at the beginning of a literary work
  12. 16. speech between characters in a literary work
  13. 18. of a word whose sound imitates its meaning
  14. 19. that is the source of conflict in a literary work
  15. 20. narrative based on imagination, usually the novel or the short story.
  16. 21. implied comparison between dissimilar objects
  17. 22. of vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds
  18. 23. emotions, values, or images associated with a word
  19. 26. Scheme/pattern of rhyme among lines of poetry
  20. 27. of a literary work when loose ends are tied up and questions are answered
  21. 34. sequence of events in a literary work
  22. 37. rhythm of accented and unaccented syllables which are organized into patterns