(5th 6th 7th 8th Grade) LITERARY TERMS & DEVICES Crossword Puzzle Worksheets

Use this two crossword puzzle pack to introduce or reinforce knowledge of basic literary terms with your class. It covers 48 vocabulary words and uses the definitions of the words as clues. Both puzzles come in two versions: one with a helpful word bank (good for less experienced puzzlers) and one without the word bank for a more challenging worksheet.

Crossword puzzles make great no prep activities for early finishers, bell ringers, morning work, handouts, homework, lesson plan supplements, sponge activities, introductions to new topics, and sub files and can also be used for a quiz.

The vocabulary words covered in Crossword 1 are: Antagonist, Assonance, Biography, Comedy, Flashback, Free Verse, Hyperbole, Idiom, Imagery, Meter, Mood, Nonfiction, Novel, Plot, Poetry, Point of View, Protagonist, Refrain, Setting, Short Story, Suspense, Symbolism, Theme, Tragedy

The vocabulary words covered in Crossword 2 are: Alliteration, Allusion, Autobiography, Character, Climax, Conflict, Dialogue, Fable, Fiction, Figurative, Foreshadowing, Genre, Irony, Metaphor, Narrator, Onomatopoeia, Personification, Repetition, Resolution, Rhyme, Science Fiction, Sensory, Simile, Tone

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