Across
- 1. conversation between two or more people.
- 4. the audience or reader knows information that other characters do not know
- 5. an interruption in the chronological order of a narrative to describe an earlier event.
- 7. a word or group of words in a literary work, which appeal to one or more of the senses: sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell
- 10. a long speech given by a character in a play who is having a conversation with other characters
- 11. a contrast or discrepancy between what is expected and what actually happens
- 12. a play or story that is written to be acted out in front of an audience.
- 13. writing that shows what a thing looks like, sounds like, smells like, and feels like, with many details.
- 14. an author’s introduction of the characters, setting, and situation at the beginning of a story, novel, or play.
- 15. prose narrative based on imagination,usually the novel or the short story.
- 16. a category or type of literature.
- 17. an author’s use of clues to prepare readers for events that will happen later in the story
- 19. writing that attempts to explain something from a personal point of view.
- 20. a figure of speech that uses overstatement or exaggeration
Down
- 1. a character that changes throughout the story
- 2. author’s choice of words.
- 3. the falling action is the series of Events that take place after the climax showing the results of the conflict.
- 6. words that mean more than their individual meanings and express truth beyond the literal level
- 8. a character opposite in personality to another character in the story. There is a strong contrast between the two characters’ strengths and weaknesses.
- 9. unrhymed poetry with lines of varying lengths, and containing no specific metrical pattern
- 12. the “dictionary” definition of a word.
- 17. hint that something bad will happen
- 18. Tragedy, epic, comedy, novel, biography, lyric poem, and essay are all examples of __.