Across
- 5. Exaggerated statement that is not meant to be taken literally, e.g., ‘I’m drowning in homework’.
- 10. Giving emotions to something non-human, often used to describe the environment or weather, e.g., ‘The rain wept tears around her’ (Note: personification is giving any human attribute to something non-human; pathetic fallacy is giving any emotion to something non-human).
- 12. Words next to or near each other that start with the same letter, e.g., ‘she sells sea shells’ and ‘the barbarians broke through the barricade’.
- 15. Giving a human an animalistic trait, e.g., ‘He growled with wolfish hunger’.
- 17. A figure of speech in which contradictory terms are placed in conjunction, e.g., ‘I shall have share in this most happy wreck!’
- 18. The creative use of words to create a meaning that isn’t literal, but implies something, e.g., ‘I could eat a horse’ to mean you’re very hungry.
- 19. The ideas or feelings that a word might evoke in a reader.
- 20. Word choices that are used to evoke an emotional response from the reader, e.g., ‘An innocent bystander was murdered in cold blood in Downtown Chicago’.
- 21. Intended to teach, instruct, or have a moral lesson for the reader. Think about Aesop’s Fables…. The tortoise and the Hare?
Down
- 1. A doing word that sounds particularly active, e.g., ‘the man raged’ or ‘stormed’ rather than ‘the man shouted’.
- 2. The act of repeating something that has already been said or written, e.g., ‘time after time’ and ‘sorry, not sorry’.
- 3. Describing something non-human as if it were human, e.g., ‘I stared in the face of danger’.
- 4. Informal or slang words and phrases, often used in everyday speech, e.g., ‘I’m gonna go to shop’ and ‘OMG, that’s sick’.
- 6. Where lines of poetry are not stopped at the end, either by sense or punctuation, and run into the next line/stanza.
- 7. When two (often contrasting) themes are presented near each other, e.g., love and loss or happy and sad emotions.
- 8. A rhyme scheme where one line of poetry rhymes with the Following, e.g. ‘And moveless fish by the water gleam / By silver reeds in a silver stream.’
- 9. A dramatic convention allowing a character to speak directly to the audience as if thinking aloud their thoughts and feelings. No other character is able to hear the speech.
- 11. A technique in which a writer addresses the reader using ‘you’ or ‘your’.
- 12. Words next to or near each other that have repeated vowel sounds, e.g., ‘the thunder rumbled, unsettling the murky dust’.
- 13. When the speaker asks a question and then answers it themselves.
- 14. A short story from personal experience, often used to support a point, e.g., ‘Like that time your dog ate your homework and Mrs Wilson gave you detention anyway. Remember?’
- 16. A word that sounds like its meaning, e.g., ‘snap’, ‘crackle’, and ‘pop’.