Across
- 5. the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
- 7. a plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal or harmful.
- 8. written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit.
- 9. a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
- 12. the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex.
- 14. may be entirely fictional or based on a real-life person
- 17. the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
- 18. a writer of a book, article, or report.
- 19. visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
- 21. the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.
- 22. the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
- 23. a book or other written or printed work, regarded in terms of its content rather than its physical form.
- 25. a quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work.
- 27. a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
- 28. the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.
- 29. literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature.
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- 1. literature in the form of prose that describes imaginary events and people.
- 2. the atmosphere of the narrative.
- 3. prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history.
- 4. a firm decision to do or not to do something.
- 6. add notes to (a text or diagram) giving explanation or comment.
- 10. express the meaning of (the writer or speaker or something written or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity.
- 11. a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.
- 13. to predict something or to give a hint of what is to come.
- 15. the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features.
- 16. correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
- 17. a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ).
- 20. the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place.
- 24. a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
- 26. mark (letters, words, or other symbols) on a surface, typically paper, with a pen, pencil, or similar implement.