Across
- 5. two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry
- 8. a very short story told in prose or poetry that teaches a practical lesson about how to succeed in life
- 9. repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of the two or more sentences in a row
- 10. brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life, or of a principle or accepted general truth
- 12. a fixed idea or conception of a character or an idea which does not allow for any individuality, often based on religious, social, or racial prejudices
- 15. the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, or an experience
- 18. the reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase
- 19. the associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition
- 22. repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together
- 23. an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different
- 25. a long speech made by a character in a play while no other characters are on stage
Down
- 1. a term describing a sentence that is shorter than five words in length
- 2. when a person, place, or thing, is referred to by something closely associated with it
- 3. opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero, or protagonist, in the story
- 4. comparison used with the words 'like' or 'as'
- 6. the uses of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later
- 7. a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem
- 11. sentence that places the main idea or central complete thought at the end of the sentence, after all introductory elements
- 13. device of repetition in which the same expression is repeated at the end of two or more lines
- 14. a poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit
- 16. struggle between opposing forces or characters
- 17. form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking
- 20. a word of phrase, often a figure of speech, that has become lifeless because of overuse
- 21. balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure
- 24. sentence of three parts of equal importance and length, usually three independent clauses