Across
- 2. Stretching the truth
- 3. words or phrases that convey the opposite meaning or expected outcome
- 4. Short, fictional story usually involving animals that teaches a lesson
- 6. Story in which characters, things, or actions represent or lead to a strong moral or lesson
- 7. The problem; something vs. something else
- 8. Words or phrases that convey the opposite meaning or expected outcome
- 9. Humorous play on words resulting from two similar words being misused
- 10. Characterized by mystery, castles, supernatural events, old mansions, etc.
- 12. Long narrative poem that tells the great deeds of a hero
- 15. Kind of writing that explains something
- 17. Comparison of two or more similar objects
- 18. Story of a person's life written by someone else
- 20. Direct conversation between characters
- 21. An event from the past presented in the present, out of order in the story Giving hints or clues about what will come later in the story Category or type (of literature)
Down
- 1. Figure of speech that is an exaggeration or overstatement
- 2. Kind of writing that expresses a person's viewpoint
- 5. Author's own account of his/her own life
- 6. Person or thing working against the main character or hero of a story
- 11. Literary reference to a familiar thing
- 13. Short verse written in memory of someone
- 14. Words chosen to paint a vivid picture in the reader's mind
- 15. The moment of sudden understanding
- 16. Outcome of the story
- 19. humorous play on words resulting from two similar words being misused