ELA terms crossword puzzle

2. persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success.
7. the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place.
9. the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
10. give a brief statement of the main points of (something).
13. the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual.
16. exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
17. the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
19. a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.
20. the ability to do something that frightens one.
21. state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof.

1. the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
3. the state of being strikingly different from something else in juxtaposition or close association.
4. a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.
5. THE BEST TEACHER EVER!!!!!!!
6. a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
8. estimate, measure, or note the similarity or dissimilarity between.
11. an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word.
12. a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
14. a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
15. make (a statement or situation) less confused and more clearly comprehensible.
18. a figure of speech involving the words like or as