Across
- 5. A form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them
- 8. A story designed to suggest a principle, illustrate a moral, or answer a question. Allegorical stories
- 9. A quality of some fictional narrators whose word the reader can trust
- 11. A device of style or subject matter so often used that it becomes a recognized means of expression.
- 16. The implications of a word or phrase, as opposed to its exact meaning (denotation)
- 17. Multiple meanings a literary work may communicate, especially two meanings that are incompatible
- 18. The use of material unrelated to the subject of a work
- 19. A pithy saying, often used in contrast. Also a verse form, usually brief and pointed
- 20. The special language or profession of a group
- 21. Deliberate exaggeration, overstatement
- 23. songlike; characterized by emotion, subjectivity, and imagination
Down
- 1. A story in which people, things, and events have another symbolic meaning
- 2. A speech in which a character who is alone speaks his or her thoughts aloud
- 3. The dictionary meaning of a word, as opposed to connotation
- 4. A combination of opposites; the union of contradictory terms
- 6. a conventional pattern, expression, character or idea
- 7. A figurative use of language which endows the nonhuman; giving human like characteristics to nonhumans
- 8. A statement that seems to be self-contradicting but, in fact, is true
- 10. The theme, meaning, or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support
- 12. A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness
- 13. Characterized by distortion or incongruities
- 14. Direct address, usually to someone or something that is not present
- 15. Question A question asked for effect, not in expectation of a reply
- 18. Explicitly instructive
- 22. Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete