Across
- 1. The repetition of sounds in two or more phrases that appear close to each other.
- 4. A type of writing that is intended to explain something; explanatory, descriptive
- 6. A literary device that allows writers to show their audience specific events that happened before the current action of the story
- 10. The reader knows something that the characters do not.
- 11. Deduce or conclude information from evidence and reasoning
- 12. The most exciting part of a story where all of the main conflict comes together. Often called the turning point of the story.
- 13. A comparison between two thins, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification
- 17. A category system that literature falls into based on specific conventions that develop to characterize the differences.
- 19. tells the story either in the first, second or third person point of view.
- 20. Something happens that we wouldn't expect to happen.
Down
- 2. A comparison between two things that are unlike without using like or as.
- 3. Literary term, comparison using like or as.
- 5. An abstraction (idea) that represents the central idea of the story.
- 7. Estimate, measure or note the similarity between two ideas.
- 8. A writer's vivid description that helps readers create a mental image of something by appealing to any of the five senses
- 9. A prolonged talk or discourse by a single speaker, especially one dominating or monopolizing a conversation.
- 14. What is said is different than what is meant.
- 15. When an author gives human traits to an animal or a lifeless object.
- 16. The state of being strikingly different from something else, typically something in juxtaposition or close association.
- 18. An intentional reference to another literary work that the reader should understand in order to make connections