Analyzing literature

Here you can practise some of the words we have been working on lately, and a few others that you can use when talking and writing about literature.

Word Bank
antagonist, author, character, crime, fantasy, foreshadowing, genre, main character, narrative voice, novel, plot, point of view, protagonist, science fiction, setting, short story, theme, title, turning point

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Across

1. From whose eyes is the story told/seen?

3. Short fictional text

6. The enemy in the story

7. Word that describes the time and place in a book

9. A story that takes place in space, in the future or similar

12. Hint about something that's going to happen in the text

13. A person in a book or a film

15. The sequence of events that make up the story

17. The main idea, what is the book about?

18. What is the story called?

19. The hero/heroine of the story

Down

2. Who is telling the story?

4. The most important person in the story

5. A story where someone is murdered

8. When the story changes direction, or something important happens

10. A type of text with magic and strange creatures

11. Long fictional text (a whole book)

14. Who has written the story?

16. What type of text is it?

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