Literary Devices: Stories and Poems

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Across
  1. 1. A structured and well-organized piece of writing; usually 5 paragraphs
  2. 5. Two rhymed lines in a poem, one after the other
  3. 8. One "sentence" of poetry
  4. 10. The "villain" of the story
  5. 12. Jumping back to a previous time in a character's life
  6. 14. The pattern of rhyme in the poem
  7. 15. The claim you will prove in your essay
  8. 17. A hint about something that will happen later in the story
  9. 18. A story about connected events in someone's life
  10. 19. The beginning of an essay; leading sentence that attempts to catch the reader's attention
Down
  1. 2. These mark different sections within the text
  2. 3. Sentence at the beginning of a body paragraph that tells the reader what the paragraph will be about
  3. 4. Problems that characters face in the story
  4. 6. When the action of the story reaches its most intense moment
  5. 7. One "paragraph" of poetry
  6. 9. Syllables are 5-7-5
  7. 11. The end of a story
  8. 13. Repetition of consonant sounds
  9. 16. The "hero" of the story