LITERATURE GENRES CROSSWORD
Across
- 2. Is a narrative in which the characters often stand for abstract concepts. An allegory generally teaches a lesson by means of an interesting story.
- 5. Poets use this to reinforce a poems' meaning and mood.
- 7. language written with rhythm, figurative language, imagery, sound devices and emotionally charged language.
- 11. The vehicle (person, animal, creation) that moves the story forward.
- 12. A nonfiction genre that tells about a person's life and is written by that person.
- 14. A figure of speech in which a comparison or analogy is made between two seemingly unlike things, as in the phrase "evening of life"
- 15. A genre of work that is designed to be read in a play as a performance.
- 16. associations, images, or impressions carried by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning.
- 17. the ordinary form of written language.
- 18. A reference to something in literature, history, mythology, religious texts,etx., considered common knowledge.
- 19. A fictional work that contains many incredible creatures or events.
Down
- 1. point at which the conflict of the story begins to reach a turning point and begins to be resolved.
- 3. Usually a short story about animals and offers the reader a moral or lesson at the end.
- 4. A genre of writing in which the information or events of the story are true.
- 6. An amusing entertaining genre.
- 8. A genre of narrative writing in which the information or events of the story are not true.
- 9. The person from whose point of view events are conveyed.
- 10. The narrator of the poem.
- 13. A literary technique in which foolish ideas or customs are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society.
- 20. tales/ Exaggerated stories that incorporate a good deal of humor.