Across
- 3. Repetition of beginning consonant sounds
- 4. The way an author structures sentences
- 9. language Writing that goes beyond literal meaning
- 10. Two contradictory terms placed together
- 11. Taste imagery
- 12. length Short and choppy, long and flowing, fragments, run-ons, polysyndeton, or asyndeton
- 14. of view The perspective from which the text is told (first, second, or third person)
- 16. features Visual elements like italics, bold, or all caps
- 17. Smell imagery
- 19. meaning Nonliteral or imaginative use of language
- 24. Touch imagery
- 25. Use of colons, semicolons, ellipses, em dash, parentheses, and other marks
- 28. meaning The feelings or ideas a word suggests
- 30. Sight imagery
- 32. meaning The dictionary definition of a word
- 33. Direct comparison without using “like” or “as”
- 34. Object or image that represents something larger
- 35. Extreme exaggeration
Down
- 1. Sound imagery
- 2. Placing two or more ideas, places, or characters side by side for comparison or contrast
- 5. Reference to a well-known person, event, or work
- 6. Giving human traits to nonhuman things
- 7. Movement imagery
- 8. structure Same grammatical pattern to show equal importance or rhythm
- 13. How a text is built
- 15. meaning The specific meaning of a word within a field or context
- 18. type Declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory, simple, compound, or complex
- 20. Repeated words or phrases such as anaphora or antistrophe
- 21. Comparison using “like” or “as”
- 22. An author’s word choice
- 23. Vivid and specific sensory language
- 26. A common expression whose meaning differs from its literal words
- 27. The overall organization of the text (cause/effect, classification and division, comparison and contrast, definition, process analysis)
- 29. of events How the text begins and ends and how ideas unfold
- 31. Extended comparison between two things
- 32. selection What the author chooses to include or omit