Across
- 4. Setting a tone using characters, plot, vocabulary and other literary choices
- 6. When something non-human is given human characteristics
- 8. An author’s language or word choice when dealing with a subject
- 9. Using less formal speech to make a text more relatable
- 12. Comparing something to another thing
- 15. Adding to a simple sentence to increase its significance
- 16. Repeated use of consonant sounds to add rhythm or repetition
- 17. Comparing two different things, using ‘like’ or ‘as’ to show it’s just a comparison
- 18. Repeating the same syllable sound, usually at a line’s end
- 20. Using creative word choices to create a vivid image
- 21. An implied comparison of one thing to another - saying one is the other
- 22. Using exaggeration to an unrealistic degree
- 23. Hinting at future events using subtle clues
- 24. A recurring object or event in a text which holds symbolic meaning
Down
- 1. Carrying a sentence over to the next line or stanza
- 2. Combining two opposite words side by side
- 3. Metaphorically giving human characteristics to non-human things
- 5. Words that are written as they sound
- 7. Referring to something famous outside of the poem/story
- 10. Repeated use of vowel sounds to add rhythm or repetition
- 11. The structure of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem.
- 13. Using a sequence of words starting with the same letter
- 14. When objects, characters, actions, locations represent something else
- 19. Using a less offensive word to soften a harsher one