critical nouns

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Across
  1. 2. "a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing"
  2. 3. "central, unifying element of a story"
  3. 5. “Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers”
  4. 6. " we talk of persuasive or argumentative writing"
  5. 7. "an individual feature, fact, or item"
Down
  1. 1. "meaning of a word or expression"
  2. 4. "the end or finish of an event or process"