Literary Terms

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A secret scheme to do something (4)
  2. 4. Qualities that are ___ (7)
  3. 6. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (6)
  4. 8. Passing reference or indirect mention (8)
  5. 10. A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally (8)
  6. 13. Using words that imitate the sound they denote (12)
  7. 15. A conceptual separation or distinction (8)
  8. 16. A message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events (9)

Down

  1. 1. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding (6)
  2. 3. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse (12)
  3. 5. Serving to expound or set forth (10)
  4. 7. Intended or having the power to induce action or belief (10)
  5. 9. An arbitrary sign that has acquired a conventional significance (6)
  6. 11. A mental position from which things are ___ (11)
  7. 12. The ability to form mental ___ of things or events (7)
  8. 14. A statement that contradicts itself (7)