Across
- 1. the main events of a play, novel, film, or similar work
- 3. A long narrative work of fiction with some realism. It is often in prose form and is published as a single book.
- 5. a sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions
- 7. a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another
- 8. a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson
Down
- 1. a short, well-known pithy saying, stating a general truth or piece of advice
- 2. a classical poem of a kind originally meant to be sung
- 4. a restatement of the meaning of a text or passage using other words
- 6. a folktale characterised by elements of magic or the supernatural, such as the endowment of a mortal character with magical powers or special knowledge
- 8. a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word