Across
- 3. Orphan who asks for more
- 5. Captain obsessed with a white whale
- 6. When an abstract idea is represented by an object
- 8. Shakespearean tragedy featuring a Danish prince.
- 10. The main character of a narrative
- 12. Miserly character seen in ghostly company
- 14. Curious girl who follows a rabbit down a hole
- 15. Mary Shelley’s famous monster
- 16. A character whose traits contrast with another to highlight qualities
- 19. Orphan who lives in a treehouse and never grows up
- 21. A play in which the hero suffers a disastrous fate
- 22. Fourteen-line poem form often used by Shakespeare and Donne
- 26. Dystopian novel by George Orwell published in 1949
- 27. Boy adventurer with a fruity first name
- 29. Novelist who prides herself on prejudice
- 31. The emotional atmosphere of a text
- 33. Half-blood demigod, son of Poseidon
- 35. Tolkien’s fictional world
- 36. Poem of mourning or reflection
- 38. Boy wizard with a lightning-shaped scar
- 40. Contemporary American poet, former U.S. Poet Laureate
- 44. Eccentric chocolatier and candy maker
- 45. Clever girl who loves books
- 48. Nobel Prize-winning poet from Northern Ireland, known for Digging
- 50. Irish poet, Nobel laureate, famous for “Digging” and rural imagery
- 51. Religion shaping morality, identity, and conflict in Irish narratives
- 52. Hint of future events in a story
- 53. Fictional detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle
- 56. Giving human qualities to non-human things
- 57. Playwright of The Playboy of the Western World
- 58. A direct comparison without “like” or “as”
Down
- 1. Harper Lee novel set in Maycomb
- 2. A recurring theme or image in a text
- 4. Five-beat poetic line commonly used by Shakespeare
- 7. Writer of Small Things Like These, exploring moral choices
- 8. An exaggerated statement for emphasis
- 9. William Golding novel set on an island
- 11. Epic poem by Homer about a long journey home
- 13. Term for a story with a moral lesson
- 17. A play that ends happily, often with marriage or reconciliation
- 18. Theme central to Yeats, Lady Gregory, and early 20th-century drama
- 20. Vampire romance with a teenage spark
- 22. A speech in which a character speaks their thoughts aloud to the audience
- 23. The author’s attitude toward the subject
- 24. English metaphysical poet known for “Holy Sonnets” and wit
- 25. Contemporary Irish poet exploring identity and urban life
- 28. A long narrative poem about heroic deeds
- 30. Youth navigating a deadly labyrinth
- 32. Author who wrote The Old Man and the Sea
- 34. Archer girl who sparks rebellion
- 37. Count causing fright and bloodsucking
- 39. A brief fictional story with a moral
- 41. Green eggs’ reluctant eater
- 42. Orphaned governess in a gothic romance
- 43. Irish poet and playwright, associated with mysticism and nationalism
- 46. Dark wizard seeking immortality
- 47. Author of Ulysses and Dubliners, key figure in modernist literature
- 49. Hobbit who carries heavy responsibilities
- 54. The underlying message or central idea
- 55. American poet known for “The Fish” and meticulous observation of detail