Across
- 2. used to convey the writer's credibility and authority
- 5. a figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings
- 6. writing often is produced as a story meant to entertain or convey an author's point of view
- 8. a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.
- 9. focuses your ideas for the paper; it's your argument or insight or viewpoint
- 10. interrupts that chronological sequence of the story to show readers a scene that unfolded in the past
- 13. a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.
- 17. A poem written as a narrative song
- 18. to persuade an audience by purposely evoking certain emotions to make them feel the way the author wants them to feel.
- 21. a narrative device in which suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted.
- 24. the emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story.
- 25. modifies a noun or pronoun by providing descriptive or specific detail
- 26. to prove wrong by argument or evidence
- 28. ceremonious lyric poem that addresses and often celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea
- 29. the use of words or images to represent specific concepts, people, objects, or events
- 31. a comparison between two unlike things using the words "like," "as" or "than
- 33. lyric poem lamenting the death of a public personage or of a friend or loved one
- 35. the naming of a thing or action by imitation of natural sounds
- 37. a image, character, or pattern of circumstances that recurs throughout literature and thought consistently enough to be considered a universal concept or situation.
Down
- 1. a central, unifying idea, moral lesson
- 3. a main character in a narrative who behaves in a brave or exemplary way
- 4. serves as the name for a specific place, person, or thing.
- 7. the very end of a piece of writing, and it usually summarizes the main points of an argument
- 11. an opening statement in an essay that attempts to grab the reader's attention so that they want to read on
- 12. literary conflict usually involves the main character's inner struggle with self-doubts, a moral dilemma, or their own nature.
- 14. a word that can modify or describe a verb, adjective, another adverb, or entire sentence
- 15. poem uses the letters in a topic word to begin each line.
- 16. the part of your message that tells your audience what to do
- 19. literary device that reflects the writer's attitude toward the subject matter or audience
- 20. to appeal to the audiences' sense of reason or logic
- 21. Nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech.
- 22. literature that evokes a rich language of specific emotional responses; arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm.
- 23. a Japanese poetic form that consists of three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third.
- 27. A 14-line poem with a variable rhyme scheme originating in Italy and brought to England
- 30. a source of knowledge, wisdom and support to the main character, and is typically a side character
- 32. enable the reader to imagine the world of the piece of literature.
- 34. long narrative poem recounting heroic deeds
- 36. the action or state of being in a sentence.