ELA Genre Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. a novel, play, or movie with an exciting plot, typically involving crime or espionage.
  2. 5. a musical composition, free in form, typically involving variation on an existing work or the imaginative representation of a situation or story
  3. 7. A person's life written by that person.
  4. 8. the expression of or the ability to express thoughts and feelings by articulate sounds.
  5. 11. judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind.
  6. 12. professional entertainment consisting of jokes and satirical sketches, intended to make an audience laugh.
  7. 13. an exciting, emotional, or unexpected series of events or set of circumstances.
  8. 14. a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social
  9. 15. a story originating in popular culture, typically passed on by word of mouth.
  10. 16. a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated.
Down
  1. 1. an account of someone's life written by someone else.
  2. 3. an intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust.
  3. 4. Fiction A story based in the past that has both real and imaginary characters and includes historical facts.
  4. 6. a novel, play, or movie dealing with a puzzling crime, especially a murder.
  5. 7. experience or activity.
  6. 9. of or concerning history; concerning past events
  7. 10. relating to or characterized by facts about something; providing information.
  8. 15. a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral