Across
- 2. Synonyms with forethought, readiness
- 6. An inscription, as a status or building / a motto or quotation, as in the beginning of a literary composition, setting forth a theme
- 8. Synonyms with attrition, absolve
- 11. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meanings
- 13. Antonyms with helpful, beneficial
- 14. Having many twists and turns
Down
- 1. A clue to the audience of what is to come
- 2. A device that allows the writer to present events that happened before the time of the current narration or the current events in the story
- 3. Antonyms with forthrightness, sincere
- 4. To move back,especially to retreat to a former state
- 5. Antonyms with contemporary, modern
- 7. Lacking in liveliness and flavor
- 9. A moment of enlightenment in which the underlying truth, essential nature, or real meaning of something is suddenly made clean to characters or reader
- 10. Synonyms with abate, mellow, placate
- 12. Synonyms with brusque, hostile, aggressive