Literary Terms Crossword

the mode of narration that an author employs to let the readers “hear” and “see” what takes place in a story, poem, or essay.
involves working the concept, thought, opinion or beliefs that the author expresses.
refers to the choice of words and style of expression that an author makes and uses in a work of literature.
used in both literature and poetry to create layers of meaning which the reader accesses through the senses, symbolism, and sound devices. It can bring readers deeper into the theme of the work, without the author having to explicitly lay out the theme for the reader.
an explicit comparison between two unlike things through the use of connecting words, usually “like” or “as.”
a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers.
when elements in sentences are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction.
a meter in poetry called tetrameter. The word "tetrameter" simply means that the poem has four trochees. A trochee is a long syllable, or stressed syllable, followed by a short, or unstressed, one.
a literary device that can be defined as having two successive rhyming lines in a verse, and has the same meter to form a complete thought.
a grammatical pause or break in a line of poetry (like a question mark), usually near the middle of the line. A caesura is usually dictated by sense or natural speech rhythm rather than by metrics.
a recurrent image, idea, or symbol that develops or explains a theme, while a theme is a central idea or message.
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.
a person who is telling a story.
a form of poetry such as sonnet or elegy. Ode is a literary technique that is lyrical in nature, but not very lengthy.
a figure of speech, which presents a short story, typically with a moral lesson at the end.
a short story to teach a lesson, often with animals behaving as humans, or a story that is a lie.
in literature, the person who is understood to be speaking (or thinking or writing) a particular work. The persona is almost invariably distinct from the author; it is the voice chosen by the author for a particular artistic purpose.
The denotation is the literal, straightforward meaning of a word.
is a literary device that is used step-by-step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story.
the logical sequence of events that develops a story.
the voice behind the poem, the person we imagine to be saying the thing out loud, as a character think of the poem as someone to be analyzed, thought about and discovered.
a literary device wherein the author uses specific words and phrases that exaggerate and overemphasize the basic crux of the statement in order to produce a grander, more noticeable effect.
a literary device where words are used in quick succession and begin with letters belonging to the same sound group. Whether it is the consonant sound or a specific vowel group, the alliteration involves creating a repetition of similar sounds in the sentence.
the formation of words whose sound is imitative of the sound of the noise or action designated, such as hiss, buzz, and bang.