Across
- 3. Story which provides an extended step-by-step comparison for the purpose of explanation
- 5. The main character is involved in a bold, difficult, exciting or dangerous conflict
- 6. revolves around a great fear of, or stress on, death and dying in a strange, gruesome way; it is usually a creation of setting and atmosphere
- 8. Story which has incredible characters and situations and which appeals to our sense of “make believe”
- 10. Term means “to imply something else” and the story is one in which specific characters in concrete situations are intended to represent wider general truths about human experience – in effect, they are symbolic
- 11. Story which presents an example of human behavior through animals which talk and act like human types they represent; the story usually has a moral in the form of an epigram (a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement)
Down
- 1. similar to an analogy, but which is designed to teach a definite lesson
- 2. Fiction: A story which places ordinary human characters in conditions created by science, or which portrays the doings and workings of the unknown
- 4. unusual characters, events or situations are presented in order to make the reader laugh
- 7. built upon suspense and which plays on the curiosity of the reader
- 9. Tale: An exaggerated story, told matter-of-factly with the intention of providing humor