Vocabulary

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn (5)
  2. 3. A formal expression by a meeting (10)
  3. 8. The act of providing vague advance indications (13)
  4. 9. Someone who offers opposition (10)
  5. 12. A secret scheme to do something (4)
  6. 13. The lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction (8)
  7. 16. Passing reference or indirect mention (8)

Down

  1. 1. A person who backs a politician or a team etc (11)
  2. 4. Conjoining contradictory terms (8)
  3. 5. Using words that imitate the sound they denote (12)
  4. 6. A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally (8)
  5. 7. Any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message (7)
  6. 10. The ability to form mental ___ of things or events (7)
  7. 11. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds (4)
  8. 14. An analytic or interpretive literary composition (5)
  9. 15. A piece of thin and flexible sheet metal (4)