'Long Way Down' Literary Terms Practice

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Across
  1. 1. "Relax?/I ain't got time to relax!/I got work to do.../my shaky legs,/masking/my jumpy heart" (99).
  2. 4. "except I/knew the/cry would/be much/much much/much louder" (59).
  3. 5. "Imagine the knocking/in your head,/the pressure pushing/through your ears,/the blood pooling" (6).
  4. 7. "A guy got on,/definitely older than me,/but not old./Medium-brown skin./Slim. Low haircut,/part on the side" (74).
  5. 10. "...but I always wondered if that was/just because they were dead. People always/love people more when they're dead" (43).
  6. 12. "I think/can feel just/as bad as/a bullet's/bang" (100).
  7. 13. "...looked at Shawn/lying there like a piece/of furniture left outside,/like a stained-up couch/draped in a gold chain" (22).
  8. 15. "even tried to/blink myself awake./Blink,/blink,/blink" (84)
Down
  1. 2. "I'm wishing I would've/laughed more/at his dumb jokes/because the day/before yesterday/Shawn was shot/and killed" (3-4).
  2. 3. "I felt like crying,/which felt like/another person/trapped behind my face/tiny fists punching/the backs of my eyes" (30).
  3. 6. "Imagine waking up/and someone.../got you strapped down,/got pliers shoved/into your mouth,/gripping a tooth/and rips it out" (6).
  4. 8. "Thank you/Thank you/Thank you/... Have a nice day" (24).
  5. 9. "The middle drawer called to me" (48).
  6. 11. "I stood there,/mouth clenched/tight enough to grind my/teeth down to dust" (22).
  7. 14. "When bad things happen/we can usually look up and see/the moon, big and bright,/shining over us./That always made me feel better./Like there's something up there/beaming down on us in the dark" (21).