English 4 Literary Terms

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Across
  1. 1. The uncertainty or anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story
  2. 3. An example of this Harry Potter or any main character
  3. 4. The use of clues to hint at what is going to happen later in the plot.
  4. 6. also known as the feeling in a literary work
  5. 8. The central idea or insight about human experience revealed in a work of literature
  6. 11. A scene in a movie, play, short story, novel, or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to "flash backward" and tell what happened at an earlier time
  7. 12. An example of this is a fire station burning down
  8. 14. An example of this word would be Homer Simpson, Peter Griffin, or even Sherlock holmes
  9. 15. A kind of particularly cutting irony, in which praise is used tauntingly to indicate its opposite in meaning
  10. 18. An example of this the green light in the great Gatsby or mockingbirds in to kill a mockingbird
  11. 20. An example of this is "the moon smiled down on the earth"
  12. 21. a literary device that is used step-by-step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story
  13. 23. An example of this first person, second person, and third person
  14. 24. two dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work
  15. 25. conversation between two or more people
  16. 26. Another word for Villain
Down
  1. 1. An example of this is a city or a pasture
  2. 2. A long formal speech made by a character in a play
  3. 5. a literary character who is complex, realistic, and fully developed, possessing a wide range of emotions, thoughts, and motivations that make them feel like a real person
  4. 7. An example of this the word quack or woof
  5. 9. An example of this is science fiction, fantasy, romance, etc.
  6. 10. A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect
  7. 11. A character who sets off another character by strong contrast
  8. 12. Language that appeals to the senses.
  9. 13. An example of this is the statement "he is a couch potato"
  10. 16. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things by using a connective word such as like, than, or resembles
  11. 17. An example of this would be the birds chirping
  12. 18. A kind of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly in order to bring about social reform
  13. 19. could be internal or external
  14. 22. The attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character