Literary Terms

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Across
  1. 6. a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using: like, as
  2. 7. the central character
  3. 10. a play on words
  4. 13. a statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth
  5. 15. sentence of three parts of equal importance and length, usually three independent clauses
  6. 19. a figure of speech in which an object/animal is given human traits
  7. 20. character who acts as a contrast to another character
  8. 21. a literary device that shows a warning
  9. 22. an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different. Often an extended metaphor.
  10. 23. a type of comedy that ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far-fetched situations
  11. 24. all knowing narrator tells the story, also using the third person pronouns. This narrator, instead of focusing on one character only, often tells us everything about many characters.
  12. 25. Commas used without conjunction to separate a series of words
Down
  1. 1. the character that stands in opposition of the main character
  2. 2. is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience
  3. 3. is generally defined as literal or dictionary meanings of a word in contrast to its connotative or associated meanings
  4. 4. is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter
  5. 5. a type of rhetorical balance in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed.
  6. 6. an environment in which an event or story takes place
  7. 8. a poem consisting of four lines
  8. 9. is a word or phrase, often a figure of speech, that has become lifeless because of overuse.
  9. 11. tow consecutive rhyming lines of poetry
  10. 12. a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using: like, as
  11. 14. Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row.
  12. 16. refers to a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly
  13. 17. a speaker/writer's choice of words
  14. 18. a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole