Across
- 2. A situation or statement characterized by significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant.
- 3. The modulation of weak ad strong elements in the flow of speech
- 4. A feeling of ambiance resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the writer or narrator's attitude and POV.
- 5. A work that imitates another work for comic effect by exaggerating the style and changing the content of the original.
- 7. The time and place of the action in a story, poem, or play.
- 8. The arrangement of the narration based on the cause-effect relationship of the events.
- 9. A reference to a literary or historical event, person, or place.
- 13. The use of conjunctions in close succession.
- 18. Ordinary language, the vernacular
- 19. A depiction in which a character's characteristics or features are so deliberately exaggerated as to render them absurd.
- 23. Any force that is I opposition to the main character, or protagonist.
- 24. The specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone, purpose or effect.
- 25. The language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region or group of people.
- 26. The repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants, but with a change in the intervening vowels, such as pish-posh or pitter patter.
- 29. The regular repetition of the same word of phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses.
- 31. the writer's attitude toward a topic or subject.
- 32. any sensory detail or evocation in a work; more narrowly, the use of figurative language to evoke feelings.
- 33. Recurrent designs, patterns of action, character types, themes or images which are identifiable in a wide range of literature.
- 35. Also called unlimited focus; a perspective that can be seen from one character's view then another's, or can be moved in or out of the mind of any character at any time.
- 38. A lyric poem that is somewhat serious in subject matter and treatment, elevated in style ad sometimes uses elaborate stanza structure.
- 39. Two rhyming line of iambic pentameter that together present a single idea or connection.
- 40. A person, place, thing, event, or pattern in a literary work that designates itself and at the same time figuratively represents or "stands for something."
- 43. Placing two items side by side to create a certain effect, reveal an attitude, or accomplish some purpose of the writer.
- 46. A section of a poem demarcated by extra line spacing; a division marked by a single meter or rhyme.
- 49. Specialized or technical language of a trade or profession or similar group.
- 50. To hint at or to present an indication of the future beforehand.
- 51. The struggle between the opposing forces on which the action in a work of literature depends.
- 52. The main character in a work, who may or may not be heroic.
- 53. A recurrent device, formula, or situation that often serves as a signal for the appearance of a character or event.
- 54. Refers to me outcome of a complex situation or sequence of events, an aftermath or resolution that usually occurs near the final stages of the plot.
- 56. A prose or poetic narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even the setting demonstrate multiple levels of meaning and significance.
- 58. A situation that seems contradictory but may actually be true.
- 59. The organization or arrangement of the various elements in a work.
- 61. Overstatement characterized by exaggerated language.
- 65. The more or less regular pattern od stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
- 68. A pause in a line or verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather than due to specific metrical patterns.
- 70. A metrical foot of poetry consisting of one short unstressed syllable followed by one long stressed syllable.
Down
- 1. Comparison of two things using the words like or as.
- 4. comparison between two unlike things without the words like or as.
- 6. A direct and specific meaning often referred to as the dictionary meaning of a word.
- 10. The persona, not necessarily the author, who is the voice of a poem
- 11. An address or invocation to something that is inanimate, such as an angry lover who screams at the ocean in despair.
- 12. A technique in writing in which the author temporarily interrupts the order, construction or meaning of the writing for a particular effect; opposite of literal language.
- 13. giving an inanimate object human characteristics
- 14. An understatement for rhetorical effect.
- 15. The third part of plot structure, the point at which the action stops rising and begins falling or reversing; the climax of the story.
- 16. The sequential repetition of a similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants, usually heard in closely proximate stressed syllables.
- 17. What is suggested by a word apart from what it explicitly describes, often referred to as the implied meaning of a word.
- 18. The way a character develops over the course of the story.
- 20. A repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually those found in stressed syllables of close proximity.
- 21. An extended metaphor in a poem.
- 22. The character who tells the story.
- 27. A figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements, sometimes resulting in a humorous image or statement.
- 28. The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structures or ideas.
- 30. A form of verbal irony in which apparent praise is actually harshly or bitterly critical.
- 34. A drama in which a character is brought to a disastrous end in his or her confrontation with a superior force.
- 35. A word capturing approximating the sound of what it describes.
- 36. The way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences.
- 37. A poetic stanza of four lines.
- 41. Refers to opening a story in the middle of the action, necessitating filling in past details by exposition or flashback.
- 42. A characterization based on conscious or unconscious assumptions that some one aspect, such as gender, age ethnic or national identity, religion, occupation, marital status, and so on, are predictably accompanied by certain character traits, actions, even values.
- 44. The use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts.
- 45. When a part is used to signify a whole.
- 47. A short fiction that illustrates an explicit moral lesson through the use of analogy.
- 48. A monologue in which the character in a play is alone and speaking only to himself or herself.
- 55. 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
- 57. A type or class of literature such as epic or narrative or poetry or belles letters.
- 60. A foot of poetry consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable.
- 62. the voice figure of the author who tells the story.
- 63. The repetition of similar sounds, most often at the ends of lines.
- 64. A poem that celebrates, in a continuous narrative, the achievements of mighty heroes and heroines, often concerned with the founding of nation or developing a culture.
- 66. A generalized, abstract paraphrase of the inferred central or dominant idea or concern of a work; the statement a poem makes about its subject.
- 67. A literary work that holds up human failings to ridicule and censure; Jonathan Swift and George Orwell both were masters of the genre.
- 69. A legend or short moral story often using animals as characters.