Across
- 3. An extreme exaggeration
- 5. Best friend and companion of Lennie
- 6. When something nonhuman is given human characteristics.
- 9. Man with an urge to fight
- 10. Man who worked on the farm and lost his dog.
- 11. The animal that Lennie kills by petting it too much closer to the end of the story.
- 12. Author of Mice and Men
- 13. An expression that's understood figuratively and not literally.
- 15. Comparing two things without using like or as
- 16. Comparing two things using like or as
- 18. A typical example of a thing. (Curly's wife - femme fatal)
- 19. Man who faces racial prejudice on the farm in the story.
- 20. Tall man whose mind works like a child's.
Down
- 1. Setting of the story, 1930's California
- 2. The main topic in the story
- 4. A short novel or long short story.
- 7. Relative of Lennie who would give him mice
- 8. A form of favoritism that is granted to Curly because he is related to the boss.
- 14. A character that stays the same throughout the story.
- 17. An animalistic symbol of Lennie's American dream.
