Literary Terms Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 7. The framework that underlies the order and manner in which a narrative is presented to a reader, listener, or viewer.
  2. 10. A literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts.
  3. 14. A figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, such as “hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins”.
  4. 15. A pleasing sounding caused by the repetition of consonant sounds within sentences, phrases, or in poems.
  5. 17. Latin for "into the middle of things." It usually describes a narrative that begins, not at the beginning of a story, but somewhere in the middle — usually at some crucial point in the action.
  6. 19. A person, group of people, or a concept who opposes a protagonist.
  7. 21. The repetition of a certain word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines of writing or speech.
  8. 22. A figure of speech in which a thing is referred to using something related to it.
  9. 23. A unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of the beats.
  10. 24. Visually descriptive or figurative language in a literary work.
  11. 25. The creation of well-formed sentences.
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  1. 1. A regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary, especially a variety of speech differing from the standard literary language or speech pattern of the culture in which it exists.
  2. 2. The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
  3. 3. The use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some could otherwise be omitted (as in "he ran and jumped and laughed for joy").
  4. 4. The main character of a story.
  5. 5. The location and time frame in which the action of a narrative takes place.
  6. 6. The climax of a narrative;its point of highest tension and drama, or it is the time when the action starts during which the solution is given.
  7. 8. The final part of a book.
  8. 9. A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
  9. 11. The attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience, generally conveyed through the choice of words, or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject.
  10. 12. A figure of speech that employs an understatement by using a double negative.
  11. 13. A grouped set of lines within a poem, usually set off from other stanzas by a blank line or indentation.
  12. 16. In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in "nonrhyming" stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible.
  13. 18. When a speaker's intention is the opposite of what he or she is saying.
  14. 20. A branch of drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events encountered or caused by a heroic individual.