Literary Terms Crossword Puzzle

3. Making a comparison using LIKE or AS in order to describe an unknown person or situation.
6. When an author describes something in such a way that it connects to one of the reader's five senses.
10. The description of a person: appearance, actions, thoughts, etc.
11. The struggle between two or more people or situations.
13. The attitude of a writer towards his story.
14. When the audience knows more information than certain characters.
16. Purposely under-exaggerating a situation for affect.
19. Two things or situations that can't possibly co-exist but actually do.
21. Putting two opposites next to each other in order to make some element in one even more noticeable.
24. To give the reader or audience a hint of events that will occur sometime in the future of the story.
25. The feeling of a story.
26. Purposely withholding information, while delivering just enough to keep the audience questioning but still not able to solve the mystery.
27. The part after the story ends that provides a further explanation.
28. Some object, person, idea, or situation that carries meaning beyond it literal definition.
29. The various sentence structures, sentence lengths, word choices, and word placement choices that creates the "personality" of a character.

1. Looking back on events that happened in the past in order to better understanding the events occurring in the present.
2. When a fictional situation, person, or thing represent something very close to reality.
4. When the opposite of what you expect is going to happen actual happens.
5. Sarcastic speech or phrases spoken by a character.
7. The description of an unknown or unclear person or situation by stating that it "is" some other person or situation for the understanding of the reader.
8. Giving non-human items or situations human actions and emotions.
9. A repeatedly appearing message or lesson of a story.
12. When the definition of a word is defined by culture or one's personal feelings rather than its dictionary definition.
15. The person or thing that stands to defeat some other person or thing.
17. The "polite" and "softer" version of words that relieve the situation of the more "negative" truth.
18. A deliberate overstatement that affects the reader so they can better understand an idea.
20. Something or someone that stops the main character from achieving their goal.
22. The negative event or situation that can be traced to a flaw in a character who suffers for it.
23. Deliberate over-wording in order to show the mood of a character or story.