Literature Classifications
Across
- 3. What the home becomes in the Female Gothic genre
- 4. Pinkerton detective working under cover
- 6. Witty dialogue common in Romantic Comedies
- 7. Doubling of female characters in Gothic tropes
- 8. Humans who can transform into wolves or bears
- 9. What the Female Gothic mystery often threatens
- 11. The hills of Tennessee in McCarthy's novel
- 14. The primary ghost haunting Southern Gothic stories
- 16. State where Carson McCullers' weary mill town is set
- 17. Description of the destined emotional soul
- 18. Term for high-heat or explicit romances
- 19. Provided by the happy ending after suspenseful trauma
- 21. The quality distinguishing modern romance from historical
- 22. The profound spiritual state in McCullers' town
- 26. Violent cave-dwelling man in McCarthy's Child of God
- 28. Experimental Harlem Renaissance work by Jean Toomer
- 29. Hidden societies that exist alongside humans
- 30. The common trope involving destined mates
- 33. The Rom-Com blends romance with this
- 36. Deaf-mute man in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- 38. A common trope involving a room in Female Gothic
- 39. Central theme explored through supernatural beings
- 42. The real horror often revealed in Female Gothic works
- 43. Nature of the rural frontier in Deliverance
- 45. Fading Southern belle in A Streetcar Named Desire
- 48. Hidden groups vampires often belong to
- 52. Recent surge of this in modern romantic voices
- 54. Blended with the absurd in Southern life
- 56. Abusive husband who brings a snake home in Sweat
- 58. Vessel used by four men in the novel Deliverance
- 61. A humorous trope involving a first encounter
- 62. Word describing Ballard as a creature of the wilderness
- 63. The thrill of the chase combined with enduring love
- 65. The type of terror central to women's Gothic writing
- 68. The liminal space where civilization dissolves in Deliverance
- 70. The house that psychologically haunts in Rebecca
- 71. The vine overgrown on sagging Southern Gothic manors
- 73. The cramped humid setting of Williams' play
- 74. Narrator who moves into a post office in Welty's story
- 76. Lead character in a specific Gothic narrative
- 77. Realities reflected in contemporary settings
- 78. The type of porn involving highly capable professionals
- 80. The psychological horror of the home in Sweat
- 81. Animalistic brother-in-law in Williams' famous play
- 82. A modern emphasis in Contemporary Romance
- 84. Type of conclusion found in the story Sweat
- 86. Gritty city setting for A Streetcar Named Desire
- 87. The primary mechanism love represents in suspense
- 88. The old woman who holds a secret formula
- 90. The decaying Landing mansion in Capote's debut novel
- 91. Characters physically or emotionally misshapen by their environment
- 92. Description of the heat in rural Alabama
- 94. The central figure in a Gothic descent
- 95. Officer obsessed with a gambling formula in Russia
- 96. Small-town nature highlighted by Eudora Welty
- 97. The haunting quality of Jean Toomer's work
Down
- 1. The literal and symbolic threat in the story Sweat
- 2. What Blanche DuBois uses to hide from reality
- 5. The crumbling settings replacing European castles
- 10. Revealed in quiet moments between action sequences
- 12. State setting for Other Voices Other Rooms
- 13. Central theme in the burial trek of the Bundrens
- 15. Author of The Mysteries of Udolpho
- 20. Term for a distinct category like Southern Gothic
- 23. Matriarch whose decaying corpse is moved in As I Lay Dying
- 24. Extreme descent of Lester Ballard in Tennessee
- 25. The physical trait Cyrano fears makes him unlovable
- 27. The beautiful woman loved by Cyrano and Christian
- 31. Hardworking washerwoman in Zora Neale Hurston's story
- 32. Status of many Paranormal Romance protagonists
- 34. The type of ending required in all romance novels
- 35. The forced type of this accelerates romantic tension
- 37. The escaped convict in A Good Man Is Hard to Find
- 40. Common starting status of a Female Gothic protagonist
- 41. Brutal history explored in the poem-prose work Cane
- 42. What the city men seek to reconnect with in Georgia
- 44. Quality highlighted in Black women during the Civil War
- 46. Worldview held by The Misfit in Georgia
- 47. Romance subgenre set in the here and now
- 49. Occupation of Elle Burns in An Extraordinary Union
- 50. The madwoman in the attic in Jane Eyre
- 51. Concept celebrated in Rostand’s verse drama
- 53. Swordsman with a distractingly large nose
- 55. Often featured in Military Romantic Suspense
- 57. Fanatical figures found in Flannery O’Connor’s work
- 59. Description of Faulkner's aristocratic daughters
- 60. Setting of Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
- 64. Stagnant Southern settings for macabre tales
- 66. Classic supernatural beings in Paranormal Romance
- 67. The type of prose used by Carson McCullers
- 69. One half of a popular lovers trope
- 72. The organ often used as a compass in Romanticism
- 75. Term for closed-door or non-explicit romances
- 79. The type of rage mirrored by the madwoman in the attic
- 83. The fragmented stream-of-consciousness style
- 85. Former slave with a photographic memory
- 89. Quality of the domestic life studied in Why I Live at the P.O.
- 91. What O'Connor's grandmother finds at the point of a gun
- 93. Metaphor for the heart in the 1790-1850 era
- 94. The type of forests in Georgia described by Toomer