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Across 3. The pronounciation of which letters changed a lot in spoken English in about 1500? 5. Poet who wrote 'Goodbye' in 1943 (two words) 8. Which language does the English word 'Pyjamas' come from? 9. A lovely literary device is literally listed in this little clue 10. Technical term for a verse in a poem 11. German writers of the original 'Rapunzel' and 'Rumpelstiltskin' fairy tales (two words) 13. What we do we call language designed to make an argument or to persuade the reader/audience to agree with the writer/speaker and to take the action accordingly. (two words) 17. The name given to a personal story that engages the emotions of the reader/listener 19. Name given to the soldiers who fought for Charles I in the English Civil War in the 1640s (opposite the Roundheads!) 21. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote this book in the late 14th century - the greatest work of fiction in Medieval English (three words) 23. An adjective that describes a desire to undermine the status and power of an established system or institution 25. Literary device - to use lots of consonant sounds 26. How old (in years) is the oldest known writing to have survived? (two words) 27. Author of the Greek epic 'The Iliad' written c. 700 BCE. 28. One of the main characters of 'Of Mice and Men' (two words) 29. Country that 'Of Mice and Men' is set in (two words)

Down 1. Name of the first - or oldest surviving - epic poem written in Old English 2. A noun meaning 'based on what is generally done or believed' 4. 'He's as brave as a lion' - what kind of literary device is being used here? 6. Author of 'Of Mice and Men' (two words) 7. 'We reject the government's proposals' is a phrase written in which 'person' grammatically? (three words) 12. What is the name of the era of huge economic harship in the 1930s that 'Of Mice and Men' is set in? (two words) 14. The term used to describe a new word that has recently entered a language (e.g. Satnav or BitCoin) 15. 'She has the heart of a lion' - what kind of literary device is being used here? 16. Literary device - to use lots of vowel sounds 18. Poet who wrote 'To Lucasta' in 1649 (two words) 20. The repeated opening of a sentence, the repeated opening of a sentence. 22. Literary device - to exaggerate for effect 24. What we call someone who believes that war and violence are almost always unjustifiable 26. What language introduced a lot of words and phrases into what would become modern English after 1066?