Across
- 2. The special atmosphere or mood created by a particular environment: "The noir ambience is dominated by low- key lighting . . . and deep shadows, creating feelings of disorientation, loneliness and entrapment" .
- 4. The running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break (full stop, comma).
- 5. Compare by observing differences or opposites.
- 6. The repetition of consonant sounds within close proximity, usually in consecutive words within the same sentence or line.
- 9. The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words for emphasis, e.g. ‘asleep in the deep’.
- 10. Reference to matters outside of literary work. For example, people, events, myths, legends, biblical, historical, Shakespearean, contemporary references.
- 13. Where future events in a story, or perhaps the outcome, are suggested by the author before they happen.
- 15. An overused expression or idea, e.g. ‘to die for’; ‘as thick as a plank’.
- 16. Where inanimate objects or abstract concepts are given human qualities
Down
- 1. Is an over-exaggeration not meant to be taken literally. It aims to create humour or to emphasise a point (e.g. She prepared enough food to feed an army.)
- 3. Any use of language where the intended meaning differs from the actual literal meaning of the words themselves. There are many techniques which can rightly be called figurative language, including metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, onomatopoeia, verbal irony, and oxymoron.The poet makes extensive use of figurative language, presenting the speaker’s feelings as colours, sounds and flavours.
- 4. language Words used deliberately to create an emotional impact or response. Emotive language is particularly common in poetry, in which language is at its most condensed and evocative.
- 7. Simile is a comparison where one thing or idea is described as being similar to another. Similes usually contain the words “like” or “as”.
- 8. Is the ordinary, everyday speech of a particular place and time period. It is informal, casual and conversational.
- 11. The feeling or mood in a text; for example, an atmosphere of tension or danger in a thriller. Atmosphere is created by a combination of actions, characters and words or images used in a text.
- 12. A term used to describe a tendency or preference towards a particular perspective, ideology or result, when the tendency interferes with the ability to be impartial, without prejudice or objective. Bias is generally seen as a 'one-sided' perspective or prejudice.
- 14. Mocking, cutting type humour that is personal in intent and aims to humiliate.