Literary Devices Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. Shift from serious/elevated to comic/trivial
  2. 3. All 4 types: 1st person, omniscient, 3rd person, objective- cold detachment
  3. 5. feeling created by the story. Through dialogue, descriptive action, and imagery
  4. 8. Defect in character that leads to downfall
  5. 12. Writers attitude toward his/her work
  6. 13. no clear outcome, result, or resolved conflict
  7. 14. story or poem with an underlying or hidden meaning, usually a moral or political one
  8. 16. A pause in a line of verse- characters pause in his/her speech
  9. 18. Concrete details/figures of speech that help the reader visualize, paints a picture in the reader's mind
  10. 20. highest point of emotional intensity- turning point in the protagonist's fortune
  11. 22. implied comparison- a word or phrase is applied to another thing to suggest they are similar
  12. 23. central idea, usually implied rather than stated; must be a full, complete statement
  13. 25. major character or thing in opposition with protagonist
Down
  1. 1. Solely to entertain, takes us away from the real world- flat characters, melodramatic plots- travel stories
  2. 4. moment of realization/insight of protagonist
  3. 6. stated/implied lesson
  4. 7. bears the blame for the mistakes/sins of another; unfairly blamed
  5. 9. timeworn expression or idea, a failure of imagination, overdone story idea or characters
  6. 10. heroic qualities
  7. 11. comparing 2 things using like or as
  8. 15. 'dream like', distorts the subconscious mind, not real
  9. 17. vocabulary used by the writer
  10. 19. Quality in writing that evokes a feeling of pity or sadness, convincing your readers by using emotion
  11. 21. Reference to a presumably familiar figure, place, or event, from history, mythology, literature, or the Bible
  12. 24. action the events preceding the climax