Across
- 2. a play on words; a joke that uses the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings
- 3. Point of greatest intensity/suspense in literary work
- 5. Conversation between characters in a literary work
- 7. Point at which the conflict begins or intensifies
- 11. the beginning of the plot. Where characters, setting, and background knowledge are introduced.
- 12. A significant word, phrase, idea, description, or other element repeated throughout a literary work and related to the theme
- 14. the main character in a literary work
Down
- 1. A feeling of curiosity or dread about what will happen next in a story
- 3. The struggle between opposing characters or forces in a work of literature
- 4. pentameter- meter consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet, each foot containing an unstressed syllable and a stressed syllable
- 6. The narrator knows everything about the characters and events and reveals details that even the characters themselves could not reveal
- 8. the overall lesson that a reader is meant to learn from a literary work. *usually implied not stated
- 9. In drama, a long speech given by a character who is usually alone on stage
- 10. A character has a struggle within himself (inside his brain)
- 13. Informal language used by a particular group among themselves
- 14. A statement or situation that seems to be contradictory but actually makes sense—for example, “The more I learn, the more I find out I don’t know