Across
- 2. the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture
- 4. Greek poet who improved the lyric meter and used first-person narration rather than writing from the perspective of the gods to revolutionize the poetry genre.
- 7. a dramatic composition involving elements of both tragedy and comedy usually with the tragic predominating
- 10. using language that normally signifies the opposite
- 11. relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections
- 12. the legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century; he slays a monster and becomes king but dies fighting a dragon
- 13. beloved author who famously wrote the book "The Fault In Our Stars"
- 14. a straightforward folk story poem with short stanza length that has been made into a song
- 15. created the highly adapted novel, Pride and Prejudice
Down
- 1. phrases and slang that become widely used in a certain language, geographical area, or historical period
- 3. formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
- 5. a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the long wandering and eventful journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy
- 6. a Spanish epic novel that is frequently referred to as the first modern novel and one of the best pieces of literature ever produced
- 8. He is a fictional detective created by the author Arthur Conan Doyle
- 9. pen name of Eric Blair, a twentieth-century writer, equally at home with journalism, essays, novels, literary criticism