The characteristics of the reflective essay

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Across
  1. 4. A persona often adopted by essayists to appear as a "harmless," "marginal," or "retired" observer who has the leisure to practice the art of seeing.
  2. 5. The essayist's tendency to go against the grain of popular opinion to ensure fresh expression and avoid self-righteousness.
  3. 6. "mischievous impudence" or "cool impertinence" that keeps readers alert by puncturing the solemnity of the argument or the status of the genre itself.
  4. 7. The process by which an essayist first interrogates their own limitations and "littleness" before using self-knowledge to find a larger, more detached perspective.
Down
  1. 1. This characteristic mimics the "give-and-take" of common speech and suggests the writer is having a dispute with themselves.
  2. 2. The central "ethos" and struggle of the genre, where the essayist must drop psychic defenses to achieve self-disclosure while paradoxically protecting certain "secrets".
  3. 3. A source of guilt for many practitioners, this involves the "presumptuous" act of assuming one's small observations are worth sharing with others.