Literary Genres

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Across
  1. 4. dealing with aliens, the distant future, or advanced technology.
  2. 6. stories set in the Wild West
  3. 7. an exaggerated story about something that may have been real at one time.
  4. 8. writing that is meant to be acted on a stage (a play).
  5. 9. has gods or goddesses and often accounts for how something came to be.
  6. 11. a very short story that has a moral or life lesson
  7. 13. a story that could have happened, but didn’t.
  8. 15. ends in death and sadness.
Down
  1. 1. based on a person or event from history.
  2. 2. writing that is concerned with the beauty of language
  3. 3. a story with magic, monsters, and/or talking animals
  4. 5. containing monsters, magic, or other supernatural elements.
  5. 10. the story of one’s life told by another.
  6. 12. stories handed down through speech from generation to generation.
  7. 14. has a happy ending.