Across
- 5. Looking back on events that happened in the past in order to better understanding the events occurring in the present.
- 7. The part after the story ends that provides a further explanation.
- 9. The various sentence structures, sentence lengths, word choices, and word placement choices that creates the "personality" of a character.
- 11. When a fictional situation, person, or thing represent something very close to reality.
- 12. A deliberate overstatement that affects the reader so they can better understand an idea.
- 13. When the definition of a word is defined by culture or one's personal feelings rather than its dictionary definition.
- 19. The attitude of a writer towards his story.
- 20. Making a comparison using LIKE or AS in order to describe an unknown person or situation.
- 22. The description of a person: appearance, actions, thoughts, etc.
- 26. Something or someone that stops the main character from achieving their goal.
- 27. The feeling of a story.
Down
- 1. Putting two opposites next to each other in order to make some element in one even more noticeable.
- 2. The struggle between two or more people or situations.
- 3. Some object, person, idea, or situation that carries meaning beyond it literal definition.
- 4. Purposely withholding information, while delivering just enough to keep the audience questioning but still not able to solve the mystery.
- 6. A repeatedly appearing message or lesson of a story.
- 8. Purposely under-exaggerating a situation for affect.
- 10. Giving non-human items or situations human actions and emotions.
- 14. The negative event or situation that can be traced to a flaw in a character who suffers for it.
- 15. When an author describes something in such a way that it connects to one of the reader's five senses.
- 16. 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.
- 17. Deliberate over-wording in order to show the mood of a character or story.
- 18. To give the reader or audience a hint of events that will occur sometime in the future of the story.
- 21. Two things or situations that can't possibly co-exist but actually do.
- 23. The "polite" and "softer" version of words that relieve the situation of the more "negative" truth.
- 24. When the opposite of what you expect is going to happen actual happens.
- 25. The person or thing that stands to defeat some other person or thing.