Literary Devices

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Across
  1. 5. An interruption in a narrative that depicts events that have already occurred, either before the present time or before the time at which the narration takes place.
  2. 7. “What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
  3. 10. "She is as vicious as a lion."
  4. 12. A Renaissance king who says, "That's dope, dude!"
  5. 13. When an author makes an indirect reference to a figure, place, event, or idea originating from outside the text, especially works of literature or art.
  6. 15. When a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of multiple sentences throughout a piece of writing.
  7. 16. General feeling the writer wants the audience to have.
  8. 19. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
  9. 21. A story that is used to represent a more general message about real-life issues.
  10. 22. When a more mild or indirect word or expression is used in place of another word or phrase that is considered harsh, blunt, vulgar, or unpleasant.
  11. 23. When an author indirectly hints at—through things such as dialogue, description, or characters' actions—what's to come later on in the story.
Down
  1. 1. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…”
  2. 2. When the audience is aware of the true intentions or outcomes, while the characters are not.
  3. 3. When an author describes a scene, thing, or idea so that it appeals to our senses (taste, smell, sight, touch, or hearing).
  4. 4. Use of an object, figure, event, situation, or other idea in a written work to represent something else.
  5. 6. "The wind howled, beckoning me to come outside."
  6. 8. “The pen is mightier than the sword."
  7. 9. Deafening silence, organized chaos, cruelly kind, insanely logical, etc.
  8. 11. a statement that appears illogical or self-contradictory.
  9. 14. "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."
  10. 17. Juliet speaking aloud to herself on the balcony, "O Romeo, Romeo!"
  11. 18. The writer or narrator's attitude towards a subject.
  12. 20. “And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.“