1-25 Literary Terms, Elements, & Devices Crossword

The mode of narration that an author employs to let readers hear and see what takes place in a story, poem, or essay.
The central idea or ideas explored in the literary work.
The choice of words and style of expression that an author makes and uses in a work of literature.
Any figure of speech which depends on a non-literal meaning of some or all of the words used.
A figure of speech taht makes a comparison showing similarities between two different things using like or as.
A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural literary or political significance.
A literary device in which parts of the sentence are grammatically the same or are similar in construction.
A line of poetry composed of trochees. A trochee is a basic metrical unit called a foot consisting of two syllables.
A literary device that can be defined as having two successful rhyming lines in a verse, and has the same meter to form a complete thought.
In poetry, a line that is formed by the rhythms of natural speech rather than meter.
An image, sound, action, or other figure that has a symbolic significance, and contributes toward the development of the theme.
A kind of metaphor that compares two very unlike things in a surprising and clever way.
A literary device in which a part of something represents the whole, or it may use a whole to represent a part.
The person who tells the story.
A form of poetry and a literary technique that is lyrical in nature, but not very lengthy.
A figure of speech which preserve a short story, typically with a moral lesson at the end.
A literary genre, a short succint fictional story in prose or verse, that include legendary creatures, plants, imanimate objects, or forces of nature to illustrate or lead to a particular moral lesson.
The person who is understood to be speaking or thinking or writing a particular work.
The literal, dictionary definition of a word.
A literary device that is used step-by-step in literature to highlight and explain details about a character in a story.
A literary term used to describe events that make up a story, or the main part of a story.
The voice behind the poem, the person we imagine to be saying the thing out loud
A figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration to make a point or show emphasis.
A literary device where two or more words in a phrase or line of poetry share the same beginning consonant sound
A word which imitates the natural sound of a thing.