6th Yr Library Week Crossword Competition

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Across
  1. 3. Orphan who asks for more
  2. 5. Captain obsessed with a white whale
  3. 6. When an abstract idea is represented by an object
  4. 8. Shakespearean tragedy featuring a Danish prince.
  5. 10. The main character of a narrative
  6. 12. Miserly character seen in ghostly company
  7. 14. Curious girl who follows a rabbit down a hole
  8. 15. Mary Shelley’s famous monster
  9. 16. A character whose traits contrast with another to highlight qualities
  10. 19. Orphan who lives in a treehouse and never grows up
  11. 21. A play in which the hero suffers a disastrous fate
  12. 22. Fourteen-line poem form often used by Shakespeare and Donne
  13. 26. Dystopian novel by George Orwell published in 1949
  14. 27. Boy adventurer with a fruity first name
  15. 29. Novelist who prides herself on prejudice
  16. 31. The emotional atmosphere of a text
  17. 33. Half-blood demigod, son of Poseidon
  18. 35. Tolkien’s fictional world
  19. 36. Poem of mourning or reflection
  20. 38. Boy wizard with a lightning-shaped scar
  21. 40. Contemporary American poet, former U.S. Poet Laureate
  22. 44. Eccentric chocolatier and candy maker
  23. 45. Clever girl who loves books
  24. 48. Nobel Prize-winning poet from Northern Ireland, known for Digging
  25. 50. Irish poet, Nobel laureate, famous for “Digging” and rural imagery
  26. 51. Religion shaping morality, identity, and conflict in Irish narratives
  27. 52. Hint of future events in a story
  28. 53. Fictional detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle
  29. 56. Giving human qualities to non-human things
  30. 57. Playwright of The Playboy of the Western World
  31. 58. A direct comparison without “like” or “as”
Down
  1. 1. Harper Lee novel set in Maycomb
  2. 2. A recurring theme or image in a text
  3. 4. Five-beat poetic line commonly used by Shakespeare
  4. 7. Writer of Small Things Like These, exploring moral choices
  5. 8. An exaggerated statement for emphasis
  6. 9. William Golding novel set on an island
  7. 11. Epic poem by Homer about a long journey home
  8. 13. Term for a story with a moral lesson
  9. 17. A play that ends happily, often with marriage or reconciliation
  10. 18. Theme central to Yeats, Lady Gregory, and early 20th-century drama
  11. 20. Vampire romance with a teenage spark
  12. 22. A speech in which a character speaks their thoughts aloud to the audience
  13. 23. The author’s attitude toward the subject
  14. 24. English metaphysical poet known for “Holy Sonnets” and wit
  15. 25. Contemporary Irish poet exploring identity and urban life
  16. 28. A long narrative poem about heroic deeds
  17. 30. Youth navigating a deadly labyrinth
  18. 32. Author who wrote The Old Man and the Sea
  19. 34. Archer girl who sparks rebellion
  20. 37. Count causing fright and bloodsucking
  21. 39. A brief fictional story with a moral
  22. 41. Green eggs’ reluctant eater
  23. 42. Orphaned governess in a gothic romance
  24. 43. Irish poet and playwright, associated with mysticism and nationalism
  25. 46. Dark wizard seeking immortality
  26. 47. Author of Ulysses and Dubliners, key figure in modernist literature
  27. 49. Hobbit who carries heavy responsibilities
  28. 54. The underlying message or central idea
  29. 55. American poet known for “The Fish” and meticulous observation of detail