Plot Structure and Figurative Language Crossword Puzzle
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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
