LITERARY TERMS
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ACROSS
Free ___ (poetry
that does not
follow a fixed
38-Across)
Butter substitutes
“Sesame Street”
network
Place for yet-tobe-answered
mail: Hyph.
Nonflowering
plants with
leaves called
fronds
“The Crying
Game” star
Stephen
Narrator’s
position in
relation to a
story: 3 wds.
Alternative to
.com or .edu
Locale in which
the action of a
novel takes place
It may precede
“boy!” or “girl!”
The “S” of
S.P.C.A.: Abbr.
___ de Janeiro
Month-___glance calendar:
Hyph.
Sings like Frank
Sinatra
Literary work in
the form of a
conversation
Deer that are
mates for harts
Metal door
fasteners
___ silver platter:
2 wds.
“Gas Food
Lodging” actress
___ Skye
Arrangement of
words in regularly
patterned lines,
as in poetry
Difficult burden
40 ___-mo replay
41 Buying binge
42 Self-confident
manner
43 Figure of speech
such as “Art is a
jealous mistress”
45 Fair maiden
46 Dry ___ bone
(example of a
figure of speech
called a simile):
2 wds.
47 Actor McKellen
48 N.F.L. sixpointers
49 Hiking trail
51 Arrangements of
lines forming
poem divisions
55 Necklace of
flowers
56 Pattern of similarsounding ending
words in poetic
lines: 2 wds.
60 “___ y plata”
(Montana’s
motto, meaning
“gold and silver”)
61 Prank
62 Has in hand
63 2,000 pounds
64 “___ you
forgetting
something?”
65 Long poetic
compositions
usually centered
upon 35-Downs
DOWN
1 One given redcarpet treatment
2 2001 Grammywinning rock
producer Brian
3 Baseball stat
4 Male offspring
5 Medical students
working at a
hospital, often
6 ___ a good start:
2 wds.
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7 ___ Strauss
jeans
8 “___ Brockovich”
(Julia Roberts
film)
9 Universal donor’s
blood type, for
short: Hyph.
10 180° from NNE
11 Leading
character of a
literary work
12 Ernie’s pal on
“Sesame Street”
13 Novel in which
the generations
of a family are
chronicled in a
long narrative
18 “The Adventures
of Milo and ___”
(1989 cat-anddog film)
21 From ___ Z
(thoroughly):
2 wds.
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22 Division into
opposing parties
23 Baltimore
ballplayer
24 Secondary
meaning of a
word in addition
to its explicit
meaning
26 Gore, Roker and
Pacino
28 Lyric poem
expressing
exalted emotion
29 Librarian’s
stamping device
30 “That makes
sense now”:
2 wds.
31 Month after Mar.
32 Still in the
package
33 Artists’ stands
35 What an 11Down usually is
38 Speedometer
abbr.
39 ___-pah-pah
(tuba’s sound)
41 Hot tub with a
whirlpool
42 Gusto
44 Barbecue residue
45 Häagen-___ (ice
cream brand)
47 Nonreactive, as
neon or krypton
49 Main story of a
literary work
50 Prefix meaning
“flight”
51 ___-Pei (dog with
wrinkly skin)
52 Category
53 “Preach it,
pastor!”
54 Hit the mall
56 Producer of TVs
and VCRs
57 Yale student
58 Caesar’s 1,600
59 Suffix frowned
upon by feminists