Literary Crossword Puzzle

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3. Nonfiction narrative writing based on the author’s personal memories.
4. Last name of that famous American female author who wrote a famous novel about four sisters.
7. Two successive rhyming lines.
10. Pentameter of an unstressed stressed foot.
12. The ___ Jar, novel by Sylvia Plath.
15. Percy Bysshe Shelley belonged to this literary and artistic movement.
16. Frederick ____ , African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, statesman and author of one of the most famous slave narratives.
18. Last name of the poet who wrote “The Tyger”, “The Sick Rose” and “A Poison Tree”.
19. John Milton lived during this century.
21. Last name of the winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature and author of The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying and “A Rose for Emily”.
23. A closed form consisting of fourteen lines of rhyming iambic pentameter.
24. Last name of female author who wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, And Still I Rise, and Mother.
25. Literary genre linked to fear and horror.
27. This figure of speech is a deliberate exaggeration that adds emphasis, urgency, or excitement to a statement.
28. First name of famous detective whose partner is Dr. Watson.

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1. Figure of speech that places opposite things or ideas next to one another in order to draw out their contrast.
2. Jane Austen’s last complete novel.
5. A ____ in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, title inspired by a Langston Hughes poem.
6. This figure of speech assigns human attributes to nonhuman things.
8. Capote’s first name, author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Cold Blood.
9. This novel’s titular character often gets mistaken as the monster’s name. Name that novel/character.
11. This Shakespearean character has the same name as that hot-headed talking parrot in Walt Disney’s Aladdin.
13. Last name of Victorian Irish author of A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest.
14. Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel about a dysfunctional family of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit.
16. Probably the most famous short story about vampires you have ever heard of.
17. What colour is the hat worn by Curious George’s owner?
20. Last name of the author who wrote The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises and A Moveable Feast.
22. Musical style originated within African-American communities in the late 19th century; famous composition of this kind of music: “The Entertainer”.
26. A ___ Named Desire, play by Tennessee Williams.

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