Across
- 5. Based on a real person or place, and facts are stretched beyond nonfiction
- 6. stories that tell about imaginary or partly imaginary characters and events
- 8. accounts of a person’s life
- 9. deals with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
- 14. stories that are told mainly through physical action instead of dialogue, usually involving the efforts of a hero in dangerous situations
- 15. a short literary composition that reflects the author’s point of view
- 16. Set in the Wild West, the American frontier
- 18. prose that deals with real situations, people, and events
- 19. poetry originally meant to be sung
- 20. poetry that does not follow a rhyme or rhythm pattern
- 22. has monsters, magic, or characters with super powers
- 24. stories involving a puzzling crime or event
- 25. stories in the form of a comic strip
- 26. fictional stories set among actual events or a specific period of history
Down
- 1. traditional stories expressing the belief of a particular people usually involving gods
- 2. compositions expressing emotion or imaginative thought, usually written in a rhythmic pattern, usually more condensed and vivid than prose
- 3. frightfully shocking, terrifying, or horrible and creates a feeling of fear in both the characters and the reader
- 4. stories written to be performed, a play
- 7. poetry that tells a story
- 10. stories based on actual or imaginary happenings or discoveries in science, often dealing with space travel and life in the future
- 11. short story with personified animals and a moral
- 12. accounts of one’s personal life, autobiography
- 13. a play or script
- 17. heroes
- 21. short writings on a particular subject
- 23. words spoken before an audience