Across
- 2. extreme exaggeration that's not meant to be taken literally by the reader
- 3. an interruption in the chronological sequence of events, usually included to provide background or context to the current events of a narrative
- 6. descriptive language that engages the human senses (smell, sight, taste, sound, touch)
- 7. irony when the audience or reader understands or knows something that the characters in the story do not.
- 9. a word that represents a sound and actually resembles or imitates the sound it stands for
- 11. when an author compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"
- 13. a type of figurative language in which non-human things are described as having human traits
- 15. irony when the final outcome of a situation is opposite to what was, or might have been, expected.
- 17. the uneasy feeling that a reader gets when they don't know what is going to happen next
- 18. irony when a speaker says one thing, but actually means the opposite.
- 19. a spoken or written account of connected events; a story
- 20. when the author hints to readers about something that will happen later in a story
Down
- 1. when an author compares two unlike things
- 4. a reference to a person, place, thing, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar
- 5. when an author uses a symbol to add deeper meaning to the story
- 8. the narrator exists outside the events of the story, and refers to characters by their names or by the third-person pronouns like "he," "she," or "they"
- 10. a figure of speech in which the same sound repeats in a group of words, such as the “b” sound in: “Bob brought the box of bricks to the basement.”
- 12. the narrator is a person in the story, telling the story from their own point of view (using "I" and "me" pronouns)
- 14. the representation or explanation of the details, traits and motives of a character
- 16. a universal idea, lesson, or message explored throughout a work of literature