Across
- 5. the way a character develops over the course of a story
- 7. language, a technique in writing in which the author temporarily interrupts the order, construction or meaning of the writing for a particular effect
- 9. a foot of poetry consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable
- 11. A metrical foot of poetry consisting of one short ( or unstressed) syllable followed by one long ( or stressed) syllable
- 12. an address or invocation to something that is inanimate, such as an angry lover who screams at the ocean in despair
- 15. medias Res, Refers to opening a story in the middle of the action, necessitating filling in past details by exposition or flashback
- 18. the juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structures or ideas
- 19. a generalized, abstract paraphrase of the inferred central or dominant idea or concern of a work; the statement a poem makes about its subject
- 20. a drama in which a character( usually good an noble and of high rank) is brought to a disastrous end in his or her confrontation with a superior force
- 22. the use of conjunctions in close succession
- 23. refers to the outcome or result of a complex situation or sequence of events, an aftermath or resolution that usually occurs near the final stages of the plot
- 24. the struggle between the opposing forces on which the action in a work of literature depends
- 25. the repetition of the same or similar sounds, most often at the ends of lines
Down
- 1. a pause in a line or verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather than due to specific metrical patterns
- 2. a poetic stanza of four lines
- 3. when a part is used to signify a whole
- 4. an understatement for rhetorical effect
- 6. the omission or absence of conjunctions between parts of a sentence
- 8. an extended metaphor in a poem
- 10. the regular repetition of the same word of phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses
- 13. the person, not necessarily the author, who us the voice of a poem
- 14. the use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts
- 16. the organization or arrangement of the various elements in a work
- 17. a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to refer to the object
- 21. the modulation of weak and strong ( stressed and unstressed syllables) elements in the flow of speech