Literary Terms -- Examples

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Across
  1. 2. “I think so,” said Professor McGonagall dryly, “we teachers are rather good at magic, you know.”
  2. 3. “Speech is silver, but silence is gold.” The two opposites, speech and silence, are compared to one another by using the stratified value of silver and gold.
  3. 5. nature and fire in Frankenstein; the green light, eyes, and cars in The Great Gatsby
  4. 10. When the Iliad begins, the Trojan War has already been going on for seven years.
  5. 11. “His temper was his Achilles’ heel,” “You are my kryptonite”
  6. 13. Romeo compares Juliet’s body to a boat in a storm, her eyes to a sea, her tears to a storm, and her sighs to the stormy winds.
  7. 14. In Fahrenheit 451, Montag realized that Captain Beatty had wanted to die rather than live in their society after he had killed him.
  8. 15. In the Odyssey, Odysseus tells King Alcinous about his encounter with the Cylcops.
  9. 17. "The sun shone on the field, as bright as a thousand candles" – The Great Gatsby
  10. 19. night and day, good and evil
  11. 21. “Less is more,” “The only constant is change,” “The more you give, the more you get”
  12. 23. Tom to Gatsby, Banquo and Macduff to Macbeth
  13. 24. “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players” (As You Like It).
Down
  1. 1. “I am alone I want to be the two of us I want the join I come out of blue water after the bottoms of my feet swim away from me I come up I need to find a place to be the air is heavy I am not dead I am not” – Beloved, Toni Morrison
  2. 4. When the audience knows that Juliet is alive, but Romeo does not.
  3. 6. In Of Mice and Men, Lennie’s accidental killing of the mouse in his pocket hints at the accidental death of Curley’s wife.
  4. 7. When Mark Antony refers to Caesar’s assassin as “an honorable man” in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
  5. 8. “The wind whispers through the trees.”
  6. 9. “It’s so fluffy I’m gonna die!” – Despicable Me
  7. 11. American Airlines, Best Buy, Coca-Cola
  8. 12. Hamlet’s famous “To be or not to be” speech, performed alone onstage
  9. 16. a fire station burns down; a pilot has a fear of heights
  10. 18. Victor Frankenstein evolves from an ambitious, naive scientist to a guilt-ridden, disillusioned man consumed by the consequences of his actions.
  11. 20. “No pain, no gain,” “I came, I saw, I conquered”
  12. 22. “The woods are lovely, dark and deep” (Robert Frost). Note the comma, marking a significant pause in the middle of the line.