LITERATURE GENRES CROSSWORD

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