Across
- 4. characterized by an extreme contrast or polar opposites
- 6. describes people who display high-spirited merriment; full of joy, jocular
- 7. designed or intended to teach and instruct; serving to enlighten and inform
- 8. the quality of being calm and restrained; unhurried and deliberate
- 10. very sarcastic; scornful, mocking, and derisive
- 11. characterized by strong emotions or convictions; very emphatic
Down
- 1. marked by an orderly, logical, and clear relationship
- 2. characterized by a parallel similarity that permits the drawing of an analogy
- 3. a brief literary sketch
- 4. characterized by unselfish concern for the welfare of others; not egotistical
- 5. the use of exaggerated language for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect
- 8. to make less severe or harsh; to moderate; to lessen; to relieve
- 9. to attempt to prove that an accusation or theory is false