LITERARY TERMS

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Across
  1. 2. Words that sound like the things they describe.
  2. 5. field: a group of words that are linked thematically
  3. 7. a word showing action, movement, or being.
  4. 10. the repetition of the "S" sound.
  5. 13. question: a question which does not expect an answer and therefore used for effect.
  6. 15. An idea or feeling that a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
  7. 16. (or persona): The ‘voice’ of a piece of writing, particularly a poem
  8. 18. a category or type of writing - e.g. horror stories or love stories.
  9. 20. the sounds A,E,I,O,U.
  10. 21. open to two or more interpretations.
  11. 22. patterns of similar sounds.
  12. 24. a poem which tells a story.
  13. 27. in story form.
  14. 28. A stop or pause within a line of poetry
  15. 30. a two-word phrase which brings together two opposites - eg. ‘feather of lead’
  16. 32. the repetition of vowel sounds.
  17. 34. a comparison where something is said to be something else.
  18. 35. non-human things are described as if they were human.
  19. 36. a series of words all containing, or beginning with the same consonant.
  20. 37. a word which gives us more information about a verb.
Down
  1. 1. language: phrasing which creates a strong emotional response in the reader.
  2. 2. an eight line stanza of poetry, often featured as the first part of a Petrarchan sonnet
  3. 3. verse: Unrhymed verse, where each line has ten syllables.
  4. 4. a six line stanza of poetry, often featured as the second half of a Petrarchan sonnet
  5. 6. intentional exaggeration to create an effect.
  6. 8. a formally structured poem with 14 lines.
  7. 9. fallacy: giving emotional human characteristics to non-animated objects – often used with weather - e.g a storm on the night of a scary story
  8. 11. a situation where something is said but the reader can see a different meaning.
  9. 12. a play on words
  10. 14. any collection of poems or other writing.
  11. 16. a comparison using "like" or "as".
  12. 17. a word which gives us more information about a noun.
  13. 19. the pattern of beats in speech or a line of verse.
  14. 22. couplet: two lines of poetry together that rhyme
  15. 23. running one line of poetry into another without stopping.
  16. 25. a specific type of repetition in which a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.
  17. 26. a four line stanza – a Shakespearean sonnet is comprised of three quatrains and a rhyming couplet
  18. 29. the act of positioning close together (or side by side) two often contrasting images, ideas etc for effect
  19. 31. ‘turning point’ - a change in thought and/or emotion. Can be seen in any poem, but look out for this in the first line of the sestet in a Petrarchan sonnet
  20. 33. all the sounds of the alphabet apart from the vowel sounds.