Literary Terms Crossword

a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.
a story originating in popular culture, typically passed on by word of mouth.
a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events.
a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.
stop oneself from doing something.
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
a word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect.
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same.
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.