Literary Terms

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Across
  1. 3. dictionary definition of a word
  2. 6. words and phrases that appeal to the readers’ senses
  3. 11. of View concentrates on the teller of the story
  4. 12. ideas or feelings you get when you hear or see a word
  5. 13. traditional form of Japanese poetry (5-7-5)
  6. 14. repetition of sound or letters at the beginning of words (consonant)
  7. 17. Person limited speaker isn’t part of the story but knows the thoughts and feelings of one character
  8. 19. words a character speaks
  9. 20. author’s use of exaggeration or overstatement for emphasis
  10. 21. a poem written about a hero
  11. 23. to restate in your own words
  12. 25. a person, a place, an object that stands for something beyond itself
  13. 26. Person narrator is a character in the story and uses “I” and “me” to describe him/herself
  14. 28. repetition of sounds at the ends of words
  15. 29. repetition of vowel sounds
  16. 31. a type of literature
  17. 32. comparison of 2 things (one thing is another)
  18. 34. ordinary form of spoken language
  19. 35. comparison using like or as
Down
  1. 1. giving human qualities to non humans (animals, objects)
  2. 2. Person omniscient when the speaker isn’t part of the story but knows the thoughts and feelings of several, if not all the characters
  3. 4. writer’s attitude toward his or her subject
  4. 5. poem highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of the writer
  5. 7. group of lines within a poem
  6. 8. the beat
  7. 9. pop, fizz, crack, crash
  8. 10. Person narrator is not a character, he or she used 3rd person pronouns such as he, she, they, it, and them
  9. 15. scheme the pattern of rhymes in a poem
  10. 16. Verse rhythmic poem without rhyme
  11. 18. an atmosphere – a feeling that a literary work conveys to readers
  12. 22. Poem poem written in its shape (love is written in a heart shape)
  13. 24. reference to a story/music in a literature selection
  14. 25. it involves how something is said rather than what is said
  15. 27. poem poem that tells a story
  16. 30. rhymed pair of lines in a poem
  17. 33. message about life that is conveyed by a literary work