Literature words

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. An account of the series of events making up a person's life (9)
  2. 5. Fiction with a large amount of imagination in it (7)
  3. 7. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained (7)
  4. 8. A style of expressing yourself in writing (5)
  5. 9. Literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of ___ on society (14)
  6. 11. Literature in metrical form (6)
  7. 13. An epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines (5)
  8. 14. A language user's knowledge of words (10)
  9. 15. A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact (7)
  10. 16. A ___ work intended for performance by actors on a stage (5)

Down

  1. 1. Prose writing that is not fictional (10)
  2. 3. Writes professionally (6)
  3. 4. Unrhymed ___ without a consistent metrical pattern (9)
  4. 6. Port city in southwestern Ireland (8)
  5. 10. An imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (plural) (10)
  6. 12. The cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message (7)