What's Your Favorite Genre?

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. A mental position from which things are ___ (11)
  2. 3. A story about ___ (plural) (10)
  3. 5. Literature in metrical form (6)
  4. 8. Pronouns and verbs used to refer to the speaker or writer of the language in which they occur (11)
  5. 12. A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact (7)
  6. 13. An imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (9)
  7. 14. A style of expressing yourself in writing (5)
  8. 15. A message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events (5)

Down

  1. 1. The story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc (4)
  2. 2. Pronouns and verbs that are used to refer to something other than the speaker or addressee of (11)
  3. 4. The context and environment in which something is set (7)
  4. 6. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk (plural) (9)
  5. 7. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained (7)
  6. 9. Writes professionally (6)
  7. 10. The literary genre of works intended for the theater (5)
  8. 11. A collection of things sharing a common attribute (8)