Across
- 2. An understatement for rhetorical effect
- 5. A short fiction that illustrates an explicit moral lesson through the use of analogy
- 11. The character who tells the story; or in poetry the persona
- 14. A direct and specific meaning often referred to as the dictionary dictionary meaning of a word
- 16. the modulation of weak and strong 9stressed and unstressed syllables0 elements in the flow of speech
- 20. The use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts
- 22. The repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants, but with a change in the interviewing vowels, such as pitter-patter or pish-posh
- 23. The time and place of the action in a story, poem, or play
- 25. Broadly defined, any sensory detail or evocation in a work; more narrowly, the use of figurative language to evoke feelings
- 26. two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter that together present a single idea or connection
- 27. Also called unlimited focus; a perspective that can be seen from one character's view to another, or can be moved in or out of the mind of any character at any time
- 30. The more or less regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
- 31. An address or invocation to something that is inanimate, such as an angry lover who screams at the ocean in despair
- 32. A figure of speech that consists of the use of the same of one object or concept for that of another to refer to the object
- 33. The omission or absence of conjunctions between parts of a sentence
- 34. The language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group of people
- 36. Treating an abstraction or non human object as if it were a person, by endowing it with human qualities
- 41. The person, not necessarily the author, who is the voice of a poem
- 42. The voice or figure of the author who tells and structures the story and who may or may not share the values of the actual author
- 44. A pause in a line or verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather than due to specific metrical patterns
- 46. The sequential repetition of similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants, usually heard in closely proximate stressed syllables
- 47. The repetition of the same or similar sounds, most often at the end of lines
- 48. A poetic stanza of four lines
Down
- 1. A lyric poem that is somewhat serious in subject matter and treatment, elevated in style and sometimes uses elaborate stanza structure
- 3. A drama in which a character (usually good and noble and of high rank) is brought to a disastrous end in his or her confrontation with a superior force
- 4. Language A technique in writing in which the author temporarily interrupts the order, construction or meaning of the writing for a particular effect; opposite of literal language
- 6. The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, grammatical structures or ideas
- 7. When a part is used to signify a whole
- 8. One thing that is pictured as if it were something else, suggesting a likeness or analogy between them. It is an implicit comparison without using like or as
- 9. A person, place, thing, event, or pattern in a literary work that designates itself and at the same time figuratively represents or "stands for" something else
- 10. The placing of two items or ideas side by side to create a certain effect, reveal an attitude, or accomplish some purpose of the writer
- 12. The use of conjunctions in close succession
- 13. A word capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes
- 15. A generalized, abstract paraphrase of the inferred central or dominant idea or concern of a work; the statement a poem makes about its subject
- 17. A metrical foot of poetry consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable
- 18. The attitude a literary work has towards its subject and theme; the tenor of a piece of writing based on particular stylistic devices
- 19. An extended metaphor in a poem
- 21. A direct, explicit comparison of one thing to another, usually using the words like or as
- 24. A legend or short moral story often using animals as characters
- 28. The way a character develops over the course of the story
- 29. Refers to opening a story in the middle of the action, necessitating filling in past details by exposition or flashback
- 35. A French word meaning "unknotting" or "unwinding"; refers to the outcome or result of a complex situation or sequence of events, an aftermath or resolution that usually occurs near the final stages of the plot
- 37. The organization or arrangement of the various elements in a work
- 38. A situation or statement characterized by significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant
- 39. The struggle between the opposing forces on which the action in a work of literature depends
- 40. A foot of poetry consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable
- 43. To hint at or to present an indication of the future beforehand
- 45. The regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrase or clauses