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Down: 1) long, easy sweep of sound that echoes the Bible and the speeches of orators and preachers2) the placement of two dissimilar items, people, thoughts, places, etc., next to one another emphasize the differences or heighten the similarities3) unexpected events that take palce or an event with a double meaning4) the act of eloquent speech or writing, which employs various techniques in order to persuade one's audience5) the audience or reader knows more about a character's situation than the character does and knows that the character's understanding is incorrect8) a scene that interrupts the ongoing action in a story to show an event that happened earlier10) statement that expressed the complexity of life by sharing/showing how an opposing idea can be both contradictory and true at the same time11) the reptition of sounds at the beginning of words14) the use of hints or clues in a story to suggest what action is to come16) the use of a naive hero, whose incorrect perceptions differ from the reader's correct ones18) first-person narration in which the author is recording action from a character's point of view19) repeating of a word or phrase for stylistic effect22) a short, usually simple story, based on events from ordinary life from which a moral lesson is drawn Across: 6) poetry without rhyme or meter7) long list of things, people, or events9) a short statement, sometimes, humorous, the attempts to state a general principal about human behavior12) a literary work in which characters, settings, and events stand for abstract ideas or moral qualities13) repetition of a line, phrase, or word within a poem or other literary work15) the use of words to evoke impressions and meanings that are more than just the basic, accepted definitions of the words themselves17) words and phrases that have meanings different from their usual ones in order to create18) an object, person, or place that has a meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger than itself, usually an idea or concept; some concrete thing which represents an abstraction20) a discrepancy between what is said and what is really meant; sarcasm21) a comparison between two different things using either like or as22) the position or vantage point, determined by the author, from which the story seems to come to the reader23) a situation, incident, idea, or image that is repeated significantly in a literary work24) a perception of inconsistency, sometimes humorous, in which the significance and understanding of a statement or event is changed by its context 25) a comparison of two things that are basically dissimilar in which one is described in terms of the other26) an old imaginative pattern that has appeared in literature throughout the ages
 

 

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