English Literature

2. a genre of speculative fiction involving improbable elements, typically set in an imagined world
4. the main subject or idea that is being discussed or described or binds a literary work
7. the person who tells a story or explains what is happening in a literary work
9. a character who is strongly opposed to the main character in a literary work
11. a literary and artistic movement marked chiefly by an emphasis on the nature, subjectivity, imagination and emotions
12. two successive lines of poetry that usually rhyme
13. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and George Orwell's Animal Farm belong to this genre
15. Shakespeare's most famous tragedy
18. a familiar type of character whose label identifies a particular group or segment of society
19. a literary device that deals with the sense of hearing
20. a style of fiction characterized by the use of desolate settings and macabre, mysterious, or violent incidents

1. an expression that describes a person or object by referring to something that is considered to have similar characteristics to that person or object
3. author of Sense and Sensibility (pubd. 1811)
5. the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning
6. the act of attributing human characteristics to something that is not human
8. a literary device and a punctuation mark to denote something missing
10. the point of greatest dramatic tension or transition in a theatrical work
14. a fictional narrative featuring a professional or amateur sleuth who solves a crime or mystery
16. a speech or comment that a character delivers directly to an audience, without the other characters noticing it
17. the characters created by this author say, "For you, a thousand times over."