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Across 1. A form of humor based on exaggerated, improbabe incongruities 5. The general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to express 8. A word which makes the reader see the obect decribed in a clearer or sharper light 12. A word or phrase made by transposing the letters 13. An extended narratives in prose 15. The opposition, or contrast of ideas or word in a balanced or parallel construction 17. Used as a nouse, the term refers to a short summary or outline of a longer work 20. A dramatic conversation by means of which a character, alone on state, utters his or her thoughts aloud 21. A principle, statement, or idea haivng general application 22. A words that imitates the sound it represents 23. The ability to perceive and express in an ingeniously humerous manner the relationship between seemingly incongruous or disparate things 24. A judgment based on reasoning rather than on a direct or explicit statement 26. The study of the nature, structure, and varaiton of language 27. A character in a work whose behaviorf and values contrast with those of another character in order to highlihgt the distictive temperament of that character 28. A writer's choise of words, phrases, sentence structures, or figurative language 33. Something taht draws attentnion away from the central issue 37. Excessive pride or self-confidence that leads a protagonist to disreguard a divine warning or the violate an important moral law 38. Any story that attempts to explain how the world was created and why the world is the way it is 39. Verbal expression in speech or writing 41. Latin for "it does not follow." 44. A movement with uniform recurrence of a beat or accent 46. The total "sound" of a writer's style 47. Imitation of another 48. The quality of a piece of writing 49. Two consective lines of poetry that usually rhyme and ahve the same meter 50. The ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns such as phrases, clauses, and sentences

Down 2. The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of serveral successive verses 3. A type of rhetoric in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first 4. A type of literature such as mysteries, science fiction 6. A system of thought that centers on humans and their values, capacities and worth 7. A play on words 9. The repetition of connectives or conjunctions in close succession for rhetorical effects 10. Soothing pleasant sounds 11. A representation, especially pictorial or literary, in which the subject's distinctive features are exaggerated 14. To place in close connectin or contiguity 16. A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances 18. A prediction based on a Bible Verse or literary passage chosen at random 19. The appearance of thruth; the quality of seeming to be true or something that has the appearance of being true 25. The aspects of a liteary work that elicits sorrow or pity from the audience 29. A relatively lengthy lyric poem that often expresses lofty emotions in a dignified style 30. The changing of the usual order of words 31. An exaggeration or overstatement 32. The time and place the story is taking place 34. A poem based on an art work 35. The story of a person's life written by someone orther than the subject of the work 36. The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively 40. A brief tale designed to illustrate a moral lesson 42. The central idea of an essay 43. A unified group of lines in poetry 45. Any of numerous patterns of wave motion or vibration