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Across
- 4. prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history.
- 9. the faculty or activity of imagining things, especially things that are impossible or improbable.
- 10. a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
- 13. a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.
- 14. is a genre that started in the oral tradition. Myths, fables, epics, ballads, legends, folk rhymes, folktales, fairy tales, trickster tales, tall tales, cumulative tales and pourquoi tales are part of this genre.
- 16. the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
- 17. the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
- 18. be a warning or indication of (a future event).
- 19. fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets.
Down
- 1. a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
- 2. the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition, such as do in I like it and so do they.
- 3. is a literary genre where the story takes place in the past
- 5. is a genre of fiction that follows a crime (like a murder or a disappearance) from the moment it is committed to the moment it is solved.
- 6. a belief or statement that is false, but that is often held to be true because it is expedient to do so
- 7. is a genre of fiction which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror.
- 8. the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
- 11. exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
- 12. a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
- 15. the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities the standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind; the degree of excellence of something.
- 20. is when a word be used so many times that now isnt something new