Reading words

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. An extended fictional work in prose (5)
  2. 6. A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact (7)
  3. 8. An account of the series of events making up a person's life (9)
  4. 9. An analytic or interpretive literary composition (5)
  5. 12. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk (8)
  6. 13. A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests (8)
  7. 14. Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (5)

Down

  1. 1. A characteristic state of feeling (4)
  2. 2. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people (5)
  3. 3. A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally (8)
  4. 5. An imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (9)
  5. 6. A transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development (9)
  6. 7. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work (5)
  7. 10. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (6)
  8. 11. A secret scheme to do something (4)
  9. 15. A traditional story accepted as history (4)