LITERARY TERMS (M-P)

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Across
  1. 1. the main events of a play, novel, film, or similar work
  2. 3. A long narrative work of fiction with some realism. It is often in prose form and is published as a single book.
  3. 5. a sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions
  4. 7. a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another
  5. 8. a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson
Down
  1. 1. a short, well-known pithy saying, stating a general truth or piece of advice
  2. 2. a classical poem of a kind originally meant to be sung
  3. 4. a restatement of the meaning of a text or passage using other words
  4. 6. a folktale characterised by elements of magic or the supernatural, such as the endowment of a mortal character with magical powers or special knowledge
  5. 8. a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word