Across
- 5. Metaphor A comparison that does not tell the reader directly that one thing is becoming another
- 6. Type of writing that ridicules something in order to reveal a weakness.
- 9. A Long Speech on stage for the audience to hear the character's thoughts
- 11. Any type of nonfiction when the opinion of the writer is NOT present
- 15. Character Like a real person with many different traits (often contradictory)
- 16. A brief story in prose or poetry that teaches a moral or value about society
- 21. Documentation The citations in the body of an MLA report used to give credit for quoted or paraphrased material.
- 23. A few lines spoken from a character in a play to the audience/other characters
- 24. Central idea of a work of literature
- 25. 14 lined poem following a particular rhyme scheme
- 29. To restate in other words
- 30. attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, character, or theme.
- 32. play on the multiple meanings of a word or two words that sound alike but have different meanings
- 35. Literature that uses characters from historical events in a literary, visual or musical form to symbolize ideas in literature
- 36. Struggle or clash between opposing characters or opposing forces
- 37. Character A character who is used as a contrast to another character
- 38. Character character who changes as a result of the story's events
- 41. Type of writing that deals with real people, things, events, and places
- 42. the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character
- 44. literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people.
- 45. The repetition of consonant sounds in a line of poetry
- 46. Main character in fiction or drama
- 47. Prose writing that deals with real people, things, events, and places
- 48. Verse poetry write in un-rhymed iambic pentameter
- 49. play,novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end
- 51. A comparison of two dissimilar objects using like or as
- 52. A clue or prediction that something evil will soon occur
- 53. Word A word that is no longer used in everyday language
- 55. Person, place, thing or event stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well
Down
- 1. Any type of nonfiction when the opinion of the writer IS present
- 2. Character A character does not change much in the course of a story
- 3. Type of writing that is aimed at leading the reader to think or act in a certain way
- 4. Irony A writer or speaker says one thing but really means something different
- 7. Repetition of similar vowel sounds used close or in succession in a poem
- 8. A personal account of life told by the author
- 10. Cited a complete listing of references cited parenthetically in the report and keyed on a separate page
- 12. An account of a person's life, written or told by another person
- 13. Essay usually serious, objective, and impersonal in tone. Its purpose is to inform, and it should be supported by facts
- 14. Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, in which one thing becomes another thing without the use of "like" or "as"
- 17. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
- 18. Extreme exaggeration or an overstatement used to express strong emotion or comedy
- 19. Essay reveals a great deal about the writer's personality and tastes. The tone is often conversational, even humorous
- 20. A very brief account of an incident
- 21. A metaphor that gives human qualities to nonhuman objects
- 22. Language that appeals to the senses
- 26. a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
- 27. metaphor A comparison when one thing becomes another that takes place over several lines or the enitire poem
- 28. a moment of realization for a main character
- 29. Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.
- 31. Type of writing intended to create a mood or emotion or to re-create a person, a place, a thing, an event or an experience.
- 33. Type of writing that explains, gives information, defines, or clarifies an idea
- 34. long story told in elevated language (usually poetry), which relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society
- 37. Character A character that has only one or two traits
- 39. Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
- 40. A way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular group of people or region
- 43. Irony A contrast between what seems appropriate and what really happens, or a contrast between what we expect and what really happens
- 50. Irony When the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a story does not know
- 54. A story that ends happily