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Flashback: -an interruption in the chronological order of a narrative to describe an earlier event.
Foil: -a character opposite in personality to another character in the story. There is a strong contrast between the two characters’ strengths and weaknesses.
Foreboding: -hint that something bad will happen
Foot: -the basic unit in the measurement of rhythm in poetry
Foreshadowing: -an author’s use of clues to prepare readers for events that will happen later in the story
FreeVerse: -unrhymed poetry with lines of varying lengths, and containing no specific metrical pattern
Genre: -a category or type of literature. Example- tragedy, epic, comedy, novel, essay, biography, lyric poem
Haiku: -Japanese poem, which consists of three lines five syllables in the first and third lines, and seven syllables in the second line.
Hyperbole: -a figure of speech that uses overstatement or exaggeration
Iamb: -an iamb is a foot of meter. A foot has two syllables—one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.
Imagery:- a word or group of words in a literary work, which appeal to one or more of the senses sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell
Inference: -a judgment based on reasoning rather than on direct or explicit statement (reading between the lines).
Irony: -a contrast or discrepancy between what is expected and what actually happens
Lead: -the beginning or introduction of a piece of writing. The lead establishes the direction your writing will take and grabs the reader’s attention.
LocalColor: -the use of specific details to re- create the language, customs, geography, and habits of a particular area
Metaphor: -a figure of speech wherein a comparison is made between two unlike quantities without the use of the words “like” or “as.”
Mood: -the emotions that a reader feels while reading or viewing a literary work
Motif: -a significant word, phrase, image, description, idea, or other element that is repeated throughout a literary work and is related to the theme
NarrativePoem: -a poem, which tells a story.
Narrative: -writing or speech that tells a story
Nonfiction: -literature about real people, places, and events
Novel: -a book-length fictional prose narrative
Ode: -a poem in praise of something divine or expressing some noble idea.
Onomatopoeia: -a literary device wherein the sound of a word echoes the sound it represents.
Oxymoron: -a combination of contradictory terms. Example- jumbo shrimp
Paradox: -a situation or a statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, does not.
ParallelStructure: /Parallelism- the repetition of a series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similar grammatical structure
Lit Terms 3
Across:2. | -an author’s use of clues to prepare readers for events that will happen later in the story | 7. | -a contrast or discrepancy between what is expected and what actually happens | 8. | -a situation or a statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, does not. | 10. | -the beginning or introduction of a piece of writing. The lead establishes the direction your writing will take and grabs the reader’s attention. | 11. | -literature about real people, places, and events | 12. | -a judgment based on reasoning rather than on direct or explicit statement (reading between the lines). | 16. | -a poem, which tells a story. | 20. | -an interruption in the chronological order of a narrative to describe an earlier event. | 21. | -a poem in praise of something divine or expressing some noble idea. | 22. | -unrhymed poetry with lines of varying lengths, and containing no specific metrical pattern | 23. | -a character opposite in personality to another character in the story. There is a strong contrast between the two characters’ strengths and weaknesses. | 26. | /Parallelism- the repetition of a series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similar grammatical structure |
| | Down:1. | -the use of specific details to re- create the language, customs, geography, and habits of a particular area | 3. | -a category or type of literature. Example- tragedy, epic, comedy, novel, essay, biography, lyric poem | 4. | -hint that something bad will happen | 5. | -the emotions that a reader feels while reading or viewing a literary work | 6. | -a figure of speech that uses overstatement or exaggeration | 9. | - a word or group of words in a literary work, which appeal to one or more of the senses sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell | 13. | -the basic unit in the measurement of rhythm in poetry | 14. | -a literary device wherein the sound of a word echoes the sound it represents. | 15. | -a significant word, phrase, image, description, idea, or other element that is repeated throughout a literary work and is related to the theme | 17. | -writing or speech that tells a story | 18. | -a book-length fictional prose narrative | 19. | -a figure of speech wherein a comparison is made between two unlike quantities without the use of the words “like” or “as.” | 21. | -a combination of contradictory terms. Example- jumbo shrimp | 24. | -an iamb is a foot of meter. A foot has two syllables—one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. | 25. | -Japanese poem, which consists of three lines five syllables in the first and third lines, and seven syllables in the second line. |
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Lit Terms 3
Across:2. | -an author’s use of clues to prepare readers for events that will happen later in the story | 7. | -a contrast or discrepancy between what is expected and what actually happens | 8. | -a situation or a statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, does not. | 10. | -the beginning or introduction of a piece of writing. The lead establishes the direction your writing will take and grabs the reader’s attention. | 11. | -literature about real people, places, and events | 12. | -a judgment based on reasoning rather than on direct or explicit statement (reading between the lines). | 16. | -a poem, which tells a story. | 20. | -an interruption in the chronological order of a narrative to describe an earlier event. | 21. | -a poem in praise of something divine or expressing some noble idea. | 22. | -unrhymed poetry with lines of varying lengths, and containing no specific metrical pattern | 23. | -a character opposite in personality to another character in the story. There is a strong contrast between the two characters’ strengths and weaknesses. | 26. | /Parallelism- the repetition of a series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similar grammatical structure |
| | Down:1. | -the use of specific details to re- create the language, customs, geography, and habits of a particular area | 3. | -a category or type of literature. Example- tragedy, epic, comedy, novel, essay, biography, lyric poem | 4. | -hint that something bad will happen | 5. | -the emotions that a reader feels while reading or viewing a literary work | 6. | -a figure of speech that uses overstatement or exaggeration | 9. | - a word or group of words in a literary work, which appeal to one or more of the senses sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell | 13. | -the basic unit in the measurement of rhythm in poetry | 14. | -a literary device wherein the sound of a word echoes the sound it represents. | 15. | -a significant word, phrase, image, description, idea, or other element that is repeated throughout a literary work and is related to the theme | 17. | -writing or speech that tells a story | 18. | -a book-length fictional prose narrative | 19. | -a figure of speech wherein a comparison is made between two unlike quantities without the use of the words “like” or “as.” | 21. | -a combination of contradictory terms. Example- jumbo shrimp | 24. | -an iamb is a foot of meter. A foot has two syllables—one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. | 25. | -Japanese poem, which consists of three lines five syllables in the first and third lines, and seven syllables in the second line. |
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