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If you prefer filling out this crossword online, here’s the link: Literary Nerd’s Crossword Puzzle – Crossword Labs<\/a> (but scroll down here for the answers)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • 3.<\/strong> Nonfiction narrative writing based on the author’s personal memories.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 4.<\/strong> Last name of that famous American female author who wrote a famous novel about four sisters.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 7.<\/strong> Two successive rhyming lines.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 10.<\/strong> Pentameter of an unstressed stressed foot.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 12.<\/strong> The ___ Jar<\/em>, novel by Sylvia Plath.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 15.<\/strong> Percy Bysshe Shelley belonged to this literary and artistic movement.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 16.<\/strong> Frederick ____ , African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, statesman and author of one of the most famous slave narratives.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 18.<\/strong> Last name of the poet who wrote \u201cThe Tyger\u201d, \u201cThe Sick Rose\u201d and \u201cA Poison Tree\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 19.<\/strong> John Milton lived during this century.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 21.<\/strong> Last name of the winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature and author of The Sound and the Fury<\/em>, As I Lay Dying<\/em> and \u201cA Rose for Emily\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 23.<\/strong> A closed form consisting of fourteen lines of rhyming iambic pentameter.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 24.<\/strong> Last name of female author who wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings<\/em>, And Still I Rise<\/em>, and Mother<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 25.<\/strong> Literary genre linked to fear and horror.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 27.<\/strong> This figure of speech is a deliberate exaggeration that adds emphasis, urgency, or excitement to a statement.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 28.<\/strong> First name of famous detective whose partner is Dr. Watson.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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    • 1.<\/strong> Figure of speech that places opposite things or ideas next to one another in order to draw out their contrast.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 2.<\/strong> Jane Austen\u2019s last complete novel.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 5.<\/strong> A ____ in the Sun<\/em> by Lorraine Hansberry, title inspired by a Langston Hughes poem.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 6.<\/strong> This figure of speech assigns human attributes to nonhuman things.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 8.<\/strong> Capote\u2019s first name, author of Breakfast at Tiffany\u2019s<\/em> and Cold Blood<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 9.<\/strong> This novel\u2019s titular character often gets mistaken as the monster\u2019s name. Name that novel\/character.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 11.<\/strong> This Shakespearean character has the same name as that hot-headed talking parrot in Walt Disney\u2019s Aladdin<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 13.<\/strong> Last name of Victorian Irish author of A Woman of No Importance<\/em>, An Ideal Husband<\/em> and The Importance of Being Earnest<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 14.<\/strong> Toni Morrison\u2019s 1987 novel about a dysfunctional family of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 16.<\/strong> Probably the most famous short story about vampires you have ever heard of.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 17.<\/strong> What colour is the hat worn by Curious George\u2019s owner?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 20.<\/strong> Last name of the author who wrote The Old Man and the Sea<\/em>, The Sun Also Rises<\/em> and A Moveable Feast<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 22.<\/strong> Musical style originated within African-American communities in the late 19th century; famous composition of this kind of music: \u201cThe Entertainer\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 26.<\/strong> A ___ Named Desire<\/em>, play by Tennessee Williams.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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      1. Memoir<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. Romanticism<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      3. Blake<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      4. Truman<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      5. Raisin<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      6. Antithesis<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      7. Sherlock<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      8. Gothic<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      9. Couplet<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      10. Persuasion<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      11. Ragtime<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      12. Sonnet<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      13. Douglass<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      14. Hyperbole<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      15. Iago<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      16. Seventeenth<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      17. Hemingway<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      18. Faulkner<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      19. Iambic<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      20. Beloved<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      21. “Dracula”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      22. Frankenstein<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      23. Personification<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      24. Alcott<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      25. Margaret<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      26. Yellow<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      27. Streetcar<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      28. Wilde<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      29. Angelou<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      30. Bell<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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