Literary Terms, Elements, & Devices Crossword

The mode of narration that an author employs to let the readers “hear” and “see” what takes place in a story, poem, essay etc.
A main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work, which may be stated directly or indirectly.
The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
Language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation.
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic, introduced by like or as.
An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter.
A type of verse that consists of or features trochees; a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one.
Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
A pause/break near the middle of a line.
An object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work.
A kind of metaphor that compares two very unlike things in a surprising and clever way. Often, conceits are extended metaphors that dominate an entire passage or poem.
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice
Narrator: The voice that an author takes on to tell a
Ode: A lyric poem devoted to the praise of a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner.
A short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.
When a character or narrator through whom the author speaks in a literary work, the voice of the author.
The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
The creation or construction of a fictional character.
A literary term used to describe the events that make up a story, or the main part of a story.
In poetry, the speaker is the voice behind the poem—the person we imagine to be saying the thing out loud.
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally for the sake of emphasis.
A stylistic device in which a device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series.
A word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing.