Literature

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• A scholarly and weighty volume (4)
• Praise found on the dust jacket (5)
• Classification of literature, like sci-fi or horror (5)
• A repeating literary device or symbol (5)
• Tolkien's preferred genre (7)
• Five, seven, five poetic form (5)
• The mind behind the manuscript (6)
• Grand narrative poem like The Odyssey (4)

Down

• The core message woven into the narrative (5)
• The thickening storyline (4)
• Rough outline or preliminary sketch of a text (5)
• Love-centric literary category (7)
• A symbolic comparison without using like or as (8)
• Poetic paragraph (6)
• Humor employed to highlight human follies (6)

More Literature crosswords

• World of Literature Easy · 11 words
• Literature Easy · 7 words
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• The Literary World Medium · 13 words

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