Across
- 4. the act of giving inhuman things or ideas human-like qualities or characteristics
- 6. a complex comparison utilizing similarities and differences between things in order to explain something
- 8. the attitude of a writer conveyed through word choice and the style of the writing
- 10. a reader's reaction to the overall feeling, or atmosphere, of a text
- 11. the use of a word, object, action, character, or concept to represent something else
Down
- 1. reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work the reader is presumably familiar with
- 2. a figurative, implicit comparison between two unlike things
- 3. contradictory statements or situations that go against a reader's expectation of what "should" happen
- 4. playing with words that have similar or identical sounds but different meanings, often meant to be humorous
- 5. the use of figurative language to evoke sensory experiences (sight, touch, smell, taste, hear)
- 7. narration or description in which events, actions, characters, settings or objects represent specific abstractions or ideas
- 9. an explicit comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"