TLC American Lit Crossword 
 
 
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  Down:
1) a comparison using "like" or "as"2) a scene in a literary work, movie, etc. set in a time earlier than the main story4) highly imaginative fiction containing fantastic elements based on scientific principles, discoveries or laws6) a repetition of initial (beginning) consonant sounds7) an imaginary, horrible world11) a writer's conscious reuse of a sound, word, phrase, sentence, or other element12) an imaginary, idealized world13) an artistic and literary movement of the early 20th century that championed breaking with traditional forms17) notes included in a play for the purpose of describing how something should be performed on stage19) words surrounding another word/phrase which help make the meaning of the word/phrase clear   | 
  
  Across:
3) taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as your own 5) a literary movement of the late 19th / early 20th centuries that saw everything as a result of natural, biological forces8) a brief reference to a familiar person or thing from history or literature9) a long speech by one person10) the emotional attitude (playful, serious, sarcastic) toward the reader or subject implied by a literary work14) an emotional association attached to a word or expression15) a subordinate story told in addition to the major story in a work of fiction16) a figure of speech in which an idea, animal, or thing is described as if it were a person18) one who tells a story20) the use of words/phrases that sound like the things to which they refer21) writing containing elements of horror, suspense, mystery or magic, produced or set in the southern U.S.   | 
  
 
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