Unit One Inside the Nightmare Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. The attitude the narrator/author has toward the subject and theme, and based on particular stylistic devices employed by the author.
  2. 6. A literary tool, which serves as a lens through which readers observe other characters, events and happenings.
  3. 8. The relation in which a narrator/author stands to a subject of discourse. Requires the reader to establish the historical perspective of what is being said.
  4. 13. A literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference in a literary work.
  5. 15. An author provides textual clues to show a character’s motivation and intent.
  6. 17. The feeling, emotion, or mood a writer conveys to a reader through the description of setting and objects.
  7. 19. An implicit comparison or identification of one thing with another, without the use of “like” or “as.”
  8. 20. The implied, suggested, or underlying meaning of a word or phrase.
Down
  1. 1. An author overtly reveals a character’s personality by directly telling you about him or her.
  2. 2. Use of a person, place, thing, event, or pattern that figuratively represents or “stands for” something else.
  3. 3. The explicit or direct meaning of a word or expression; the dictionary definition.
  4. 5. Treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by endowing it with human features or qualities.
  5. 7. A feeling or ambience resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the writer/narrator’s attitude and point of view.
  6. 9. The sequential repetition of a similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants, usually in closely proximate stressed syllables.
  7. 10. A literary device that repeats the same words or phrases to make an idea clearer. As a rhetorical device, it could be a word, a phrase or a full sentence or a poetic line repeated to emphasize its significance in the entire text.
  8. 11. Overstatement characterized by exaggerated language, usually to make a point or draw attention.
  9. 12. A recurring image, sound, action or other figure that has a symbolic significance and contributes toward the development of theme.
  10. 14. A sensory detail or evocation in a work to evoke a feeling, to call to mind an idea, or to describe an object. Involves any or all of the five senses.
  11. 16. The central or dominant idea or focus of a work. The statement a passage makes about its subject.
  12. 18. A direct, explicit comparison of one thing to another, using the words “like” or “as.”