Literature and Language

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• The central idea or message explored in a piece of writing (5)
• A long fictitious story in prose (5)
• A fourteen-line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme (6)
• A concluding section added to the end of a novel (8)
• A person represented in a work of fiction (9)
• The most intense or important point of a narrative (6)
• Conversation spoken between characters in a book or play (8)
• One side of a sheet of paper in a manuscript (4)
• Ordinary written language without metrical structure (5)
• A figure of speech stating that one thing is another (8)

Down

• The courageous central figure in a fictional journey (4)
• An instrument that uses ink to write (3)
• An imaginative or traditional story (4)
• Pages bound together inside a cover (4)
• A single row of words across a printed page or verse (4)
• The name given to a literary work (5)
• Poetic writing arranged with rhythm or rhyme (5)
• Literature describing imaginary events and people (7)
• Written artistic works valued for their style and ideas (10)
• The distinctive style or personality of a narrator (5)
• A distinct section of writing that begins on a new indented line (9)
• Writers who compose stanzas and lyrical verses (5)
• A specific category of artistic or literary composition (5)
• A piece of writing arranged in verses and stanzas (4)

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