Name: _____________________________________
Date: _______
Period: _______
Literary Terms Crossword
Across
2. main character of
the story
1
2
3
5. problem from
INSIDE of a person
4
5
6. the problem;
something vs.
something else
9. the turning point in
a story (comes after the
rising action)
12. group of lines
forming a unit in a poem
16. category or type (of
literature)
6
7
9
8
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17. kind of writing that
explains something
17
19. person telling the
story
18
19
20. stretching the truth
20
Down
1. conflict with
another character
3. author's own
account of his/her own
life
4. words or phrases
that convey the
opposite meaning or
expected outcome
7. the begining of a
story
8. story of a person's
life written by someone
else
10. the author's
attitude toward the
subject of a work
11. point of view in
which the reader knows
all thoughts, feelings,
and actions of all the
characters
13. the lesson of a
story
14. literary reference
to a familiar thing
15. comparison of two
or more similar objects
18. sequence of events
in a story