The Highwayman

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Across
  1. 1. type of figurative language: "The road was a ribbon of moonlight"
  2. 3. this genre of poetry has no rhyming and is made up of sentences
  3. 5. a Scottish word describing an attractive lass
  4. 6. a joke
  5. 8. struggling by twisting, turning
  6. 9. legendary thieves who rode horseback
  7. 10. groups of lines in a poem or song
  8. 12. a highwayman's legendary threat: "Your money or your ______!"
  9. 13. synonym: waterfall
  10. 15. a long, thin, deadly type of sword
  11. 17. a mean-spirited, often sarcastic snicker
  12. 20. last name of the poet who wrote "The Highwayman"
  13. 22. type of figurative language: "a stable wicket creaked"
  14. 25. what you might do in the quest for high grades
Down
  1. 1. part of the setting of "The Highwayman" foreshadowing something ominous
  2. 2. the type of moving water expected during some floods
  3. 4. who or what the poem is about
  4. 7. gunpowder
  5. 10. the narrator of the poem
  6. 11. a/k/a King Georges men
  7. 12. a story passed down through time
  8. 14. type of figurative language: "his hair like mouldy hay"
  9. 16. type of figurative language: his eyes were hollows of madness"
  10. 18. large, slow-moving Spanish ship
  11. 19. this genre of poetry tells a story
  12. 21. an obsolete job associated with horses
  13. 23. _____ of view can be "first" or two types of "third"
  14. 24. examples: fairy godmother; a setting on a moor; a hero's journey, etc.