Across
- 1. attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
- 5. a sequence of events which has the action of a story
- 6. an account of the author's personal experiences
- 7. a conclusion you can draw based on known evidence
- 9. use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
- 10. knowledge on which to base belief
- 12. regard as untrustworthy
- 15. a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
- 16. expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from its words
- 19. a history of a word
- 20. someone who offers opposition
- 22. reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
- 24. the totality of surrounding conditions
- 28. a detective who follows a trail
- 29. ability to form mental pictures of things or events
- 31. a short speech by an actor at the end of a play
Down
- 2. something intended to distract attention from the main issue
- 3. an unfortunate person who suffers from adverse circumstances
- 4. using words that imitate the sound they denote
- 5. thought processes involved in solving a problem
- 8. the continuum of experience in which events pass to the past
- 11. proof that someone accused of a crime could not have done it
- 13. the principal character in a work of fiction
- 14. reasoning from general to particular
- 17. a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
- 18. the questioning of a person, often conducted by journalists
- 21. knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote
- 23. someone who inquires carefully
- 25. something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
- 26. someone who sees an event and reports what happened
- 27. a gift of personal property by will
- 30. the attribute of accepting the facts of life