Across
- 1. explicitly instructive
- 4. a line containing six feet
- 6. multiple meaning a literary work may communicate, especially two meanings that are incompatible
- 8. a two-syllable foot with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable
- 9. a figurative use of language which endows the nonhuman with human characteristics
- 12. not figurative
- 13. a speaker's, author's, or character's disposition toward or opinion of a subject
- 14. the main thought expressed by a work
- 15. the theme, meaning, or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support
- 18. a quality of some fictional narrators whose word the reader can trust
- 20. a conventional pattern, expression, character, or idea
- 21. the use of material unrelated to the subject of a work
- 22. to restrict
- 23. a story in which people, things, and events have another symbolic meaning
- 24. normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem
- 25. the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude
Down
- 2. the mood of a verb that gives an order
- 3. characterized by distortion or incongruities
- 5. songlike
- 7. the implications of a word or phrase, as opposed to its exact meaning
- 10. the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds
- 11. a story designed to suggest a principle, illustrate a moral or answer a question
- 16. something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else
- 17. the special language of a profession or group
- 19. the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds
- 21. word choice
- 24. the structure of a sentence