Across
- 1. author known for the worldwide sensation "Harry Potter" (last name)
- 5. compares two similar things by saying that one of them is the other.
- 6. author of "Matilda" (last name)
- 9. the time, place, and environment in which a story occurs
- 12. visual symbolism, or figurative language that evokes a mental image
- 13. English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist (last name)
- 16. a type of metaphor in which human attributes are assigned to inanimate objects or abstract ideas
- 17. something told or written that is not fact
- 19. prose writing based on fact
- 20. a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter
Down
- 2. stories
- 3. an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi (last name)
- 4. wrote "Ulysses" (last name)
- 7. American author of horror, crime, science-fiction, supernatural fiction, suspense, and fantasy novels (last name)
- 8. author of the most famous diary in history, (first name)
- 10. the use within a literary work of an element that has more than a literal meaning
- 11. a person in a novel, play, or movie
- 14. narrative device in which a storyteller gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story
- 15. wrote "The Raven" (last name)
- 16. the sequence of events in which each event affects the next one through the principle of cause-and-effect.
- 18. form of drama characterized by some sense of optimism, fellowship, love, and good humour
