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