Across
- 2. A kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of its parts, or vice versa.
- 4. Two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses, or even ideas, with parallel structure.
- 6. The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words.
- 7. Making an implied comparison, not using “like,” as,” or other such words. “My feet are popsicles.”
- 10. A folk saying with a lesson. “A rolling stone gathers no moss.”
- 13. The fictional mask or narrator that tells a story.
- 14. Anything that represents or stands for something else.
- 18. A writer's attitude toward his subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language and organization.
- 20. When apparently contradictory terms are grouped together and suggest a paradox – “wise fool,” “eloquent silence,” “jumbo shrimp.”
- 21. The use of a word which imitates or suggests the sound that the thing makes.
- 22. An indirect reference to something (usually a literary text, although it can be other things commonly known, such as plays, songs, historical events) with which the reader is supposed to be familiar.
- 23. Sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns.
- 24. Using words such as “like” or “as” to make a direct comparison between two very different things.
- 25. Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences or clauses in a row.
- 26. Word choice, particularly as an element of style
- 28. A brief recounting of a relevant episode, often inserted into fictional or non fictional texts as a way of developing a point or injecting humor.
- 29. A term used to describe fiction, nonfiction or poetry that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking.
Down
- 1. A description involving a “crossing of the senses.”
- 3. Placing things side by side for the purposes of comparison.
- 5. Giving human-like qualities to something that is not human.
- 8. Question Question not asked for information but for effect.
- 9. Often used to slow down the pace of the writing and/or add an authoritative tone.
- 10. A story, fictional or non fictional, in which characters, things, and events represent qualities or concepts. The interaction of these characters, things, and events is meant to reveal an abstraction or a truth.
- 11. When a single word governs or modifies two or more other words, and the the meaning of the first word must change for each of the other words it governs or modifies.
- 12. Exaggeration
- 15. A terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle.
- 16. Idea Parentheses are used to set off an idea from the rest of the sentence.
- 17. A recurring idea in a piece of literature. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the idea that “you never really understand another person until you consider things from his or her point of view”
- 19. When the opposite of what you expect to happen does.
- 22. The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.
- 27. A common, often used expression that doesn’t make sense if you take it literally.