Across
- 2. After the long run, he collapsed in the grass with tired and burning muscles. The grass tickled his skin and sweat cooled on his brow.
- 4. Allan Poe's “William Wilson.” The narrator recounts his time in school where he came in contact with another student, also named William Wilson, or Katherine in Vampire Diaries
- 6. WWII posters
- 8. Walter White, Han Solo, Snape, Michael Scott, Batman
- 9. The Joker, Darth Vader, Saruman, Voldemort
- 10. To my dog, our neighborhood park is the Garden of Eden.
- 12. formal, informal, casual, serious
- 15. "All dogs have four legs, John's pet is a dog, therefore John's pet has four legs."
- 20. Luke Skywalker, neo, King T’Challa, Tony Stark
- 22. “There are going to be hundreds of people attending the party.”
- 23. If it were a cold, rainy gray day, you might say, “What a beautiful day!”
- 26. he TV shows South Park, The Simpsons, and Family Guy
- 28. “crash”, “bark”, “zoom”
- 29. Hickory dickory dock.
- 30. "Call me Ishmael." … "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." ...
- 31. Yo mama so old, she took her driver's test on a dinosaur. (not metaphor or simile)
- 34. hitting a punching bag, screaming or sobbing, or going for a long run.
- 36. Rachel cares most about her career, her appearance, and her social life.
- 37. “Jake saw her duck.”
- 38. Aesop's Fables. The tales end with important lessons that the characters learn in the story.
- 41. I am – I'm: “I'm planning to write a book someday.”Oxymoron
- 43. Declaring publicly that you are an environmentalist but never remembering to take out the recycling
- 44. science fiction, fantasy, magic realism, romance, literary fiction, mystery, thriller, and horror.
- 45. “Passed away” instead of “died”
Down
- 1. "it was the beginning of the end."
- 3. In the middle of a typical argument with his wife, a man realizes he has been the one causing every single argument, and that in order to keep his marriage, he must stop being such an aggressive person.
- 5. "Saturday Night Live" and "The Daily Show"
- 7. using words ina speech like “ya’ll” or “wanna”
- 9. “His tender heir might bear his memory”
- 10. “tasty Tacos”
- 11. words however, in addition, and on the other hand
- 13. Remembering an important event, like a graduation or birthday party.
- 14. “I was dying of laughter”
- 16. My dad was my hero. No matter how busy things got, he always made time for the people he cared about, and showed us that family always comes first – no matter what.
- 17. To live in the hearts of those we love is to never die
- 18. optimistic, calm and tranquil, cheerful, reflective
- 19. Coming of age, survival, good v. evil
- 21. night and day
- 24. The sun kissed me while I was clicking a picture.
- 25. “A penny saved is a penny earned.”
- 27. “She's as blind as a bat.”
- 32. Bridget Jones' Diary, by Helen Fielding, and The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
- 33. John Milton's “Lycidas”; Alfred, Lord Tennyson's “In Memoriam”; and Walt Whitman's “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.”
- 35. The Portrait of a Lady, Madame Bovary, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
- 39. “I remember when I used to sit on my dad's lap while he drove around town delivering mail.”
- 40. Draco Malfoy
- 42. "All mammals are animals. All elephants are mammals. Therefore, all elephants are animals."