TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Across
- 5. narrative where the narrator is a character in the book
- 9. irony where the audience or reader knows more about a character's situation than the character does and knows that the character's understanding is incorrect
- 11. a situation, incident, idea, or image that is repeated significantly in a literary work
- 13. a reference to a person, place, poem, book, event, etc., which is not part of the story, that the author expects the reader will recognize
- 14. act of drawing a conclusion that's not actually stated by the author
- 18. the use of hints in a story to suggest what's to come
- 19. the point of greatest dramatic tension or excitement in a story
- 21. exaggeration for emphasis
- 22. irony where there is a discrepancy between what is said and what is really meant; sarcasm
- 23. a scene that interrupts the ongoing action in a story to show an event that happened earlier
Down
- 1. a figure of speech in which an object, abstract idea, or animal is given human characteristics
- 2. irony that uses a naive hero, whose incorrect perceptions differ from the reader's correct ones
- 3. a comparison of two things that are basically dissimilar in which one is described in terms of the other
- 4. a comparison between two different things using either like or as
- 6. the central or dominant idea behind the story
- 7. the one who tells the story
- 8. an object, person, or place that has a meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger than itself, usually an idea or concept; some concrete thing which represents an abstarction
- 10. a perception of inconsistency, sometimes humorous, in which the significance and understanding of a statement or event is changed by its context
- 12. when and where the short story, play, poem, or novel takes place
- 15. a plot structure where a narrative that begins and ends at approximately the same point in time or the same event
- 16. narrative where the narrator is not a character in the book
- 17. repetition of a word or group of words within a short section of writing
- 20. the emotional aspect of the work, which contributes to the feeling the reader gets from the book