Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests
- 1 Across
- A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds
- 4 Across
- The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
- 5 Across
- The period of time that is happening now
- 6 Across
- The act of providing vague advance indications
- 9 Across
- The context and environment in which something is set
- 11 Across
- A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
- 13 Across
- The temporal end
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- A transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development
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- Study of what happened in the past
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- Prose writing that is not fictional
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- The message that is intended or expressed or signified
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- An extended fictional work in prose
- 12 Down