Plot Structure and Figurative Language Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• oxymoron: a phrase using two words of opposite meanings
• onomatopoeia: words that represent sounds
• rising action: the conflict; the events leading up to the climax
• alliteration: repetition of letters/sounds
• pun: a play on words
• allusion: a reference to a famous work of literature, person, place, or event
• climax: the turning point; the highest point of tension
• metaphor: a direct comparison between two unlike things
• inciting incident: the even that sets the conflict in motion
• personification: assigning human characteristics to nonhuman things
• resolution: the story comes to a reasonable ending
• denouement: an epilogue
• simile: a comparison of two seemingly unlike things using like or as
• falling action: loose ends are tied up in a story
• hyperbole: extreme exaggeration
• exposition: the part of the story where we meet the characters and get introduced to our setting
• idiom: a phrase not to be taken literally