Billy Collins: Literary Terms Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• allusion : brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature
• simile : ex: "as if a child on its knees could reach in and pick up the bureau" from "building with its face blown off"
• personification : ex: "as if the room had answered the explosion" from "building with its face blown off"
• irony : literary device that uses contradictory statements to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true
• tone : author's implicit attitude toward the reader or the people, places, and events in a work
• parody : an example of this type of poem is joan murray's "taking off billy collins's clothes"
• theme : central meaning or dominant idea in a literary work
• alliteration : repetition of the same consonant sounds in a sequence of words ex "sink sinking" from "building with its face blown off"
• metaphor : figure of speech that makes a distinct comparison between two things without using 'like' or 'as'
• satire : literary art of ridiculing a folly or vice in order to expose or correct it
• symbol : person, object, image, word, or event that that evokes a range of additional meanings beyond and usually more abstract than its literal significance