Literary Terms Crossword Puzzle

4. The struggle between two or more people or situations.
7. When the definition of a word is defined by culture or one's personal feelings rather than its dictionary definition.
9. Looking back on events that happened in the past in order to better understanding the events occurring in the present.
10. The feeling of a story.
11. Deliberate over-wording in order to show the mood of a character or story.
14. When the opposite of what you expect is going to happen actual happens.
16. Giving non-human items or situations human actions and emotions.
19. Purposely under-exaggerating a situation for affect.
22. Putting two opposites next to each other in order to make some element in one even more noticeable.
23. Making a comparison using LIKE or AS in order to describe an unknown person or situation.
24. A deliberate overstatement that affects the reader so they can better understand an idea.
25. The person or thing that stands to defeat some other person or thing.
26. Something or someone that stops the main character from achieving their goal.
27. When an author describes something in such a way that it connects to one of the reader's five senses.
28. The negative event or situation that can be traced to a flaw in a character who suffers for it.

1. Sarcastic speech or phrases spoken by a character.
2. Two things or situations that can't possibly co-exist but actually do.
3. A repeatedly appearing message or lesson of a story.
5. The attitude of a writer towards his story.
6. The description of a person: appearance, actions, thoughts, etc.
8. Purposely withholding information, while delivering just enough to keep the audience questioning but still not able to solve the mystery.
10. 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.
12. Some object, person, idea, or situation that carries meaning beyond it literal definition.
13. The various sentence structures, sentence lengths, word choices, and word placement choices that creates the "personality" of a character.
15. When a fictional situation, person, or thing represent something very close to reality.
17. To give the reader or audience a hint of events that will occur sometime in the future of the story.
18. When the audience knows more information than certain characters.
20. The "polite" and "softer" version of words that relieve the situation of the more "negative" truth.
21. The part after the story ends that provides a further explanation.