Literary Terms Crossword Puzzle

About the Literary Terms Crossword Puzzle

This puzzle covers terms used to discuss how poems, stories, and other writing work. Look for devices such as simile, alliteration, and foreshadowing, along with elements like plot, narrator, and setting. Students, teachers, readers, and aspiring writers can use it to review the vocabulary of literary analysis.

This crossword draws on 41 clues about Literary Terms. Each grid uses a different handful and fits them together a new way, so press New puzzle for another whenever you finish. The answers are in the answer key when you print, and behind the Reveal button when you play.

Sample clues

• •Repeated initial sounds in nearby words (12 letters)
• •Direct address to an absent person or abstract idea (10 letters)
• •A poetic line continues without a pause (10 letters)
• •Category of literary work (5 letters)
• •Direct comparison that describes one thing as another (8 letters)
• •Word that imitates a sound (12 letters)
• •Central character in a story (11 letters)
• •Grouped lines in a poem (6 letters)

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