This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Figurative Language & Literary Devices has 50 clues. Answers range from 3 to 9 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
4. She was accused, convicted and executed for killing Victor Frankenstein’s brother William.
6. Victor’s wife
7. This poetic foot has 2 syllables, one stressed, one unstressed
8. Latin prefix for 5…
9. The universal truth or message of a literary work
10. This former Poet Laureate wrote “Still, I Rise”
11. She wrote Frankenstein at the age of 19.
12. A person, place or thing
13. What color are Jealousy’s eyes?
14. This poetic form is a tribute to someone who has died and consists of 3 stanzas, one of lament, one of praise, and one of acceptance.
15. She told Troy that he was now “a womanless man.”
16. One of the two ways that Robert Frost says the world might end.
17. Not an allusion, but a type of optical trick.
18. In this trope, it is always the _______ oracle who can see the real truth.
19. A repeated pattern (symbol, allusion, metaphor) in a literary work
20. Temptresses known to sing sailors to their deaths, but they won’t sing to Prufrock
21. A Long thin candle “We are _______ too and at our own cost die” according to Donne
22. The Shakespearean form has 3 quatrains and an heroic couplet
23. Prufrock’s “overwhelming question” - “Do I ___________?”
24. “Therefore I lie with her and she with me and in our lies we flattered be.” is an example of this kind of word place of which Shakespeare was a master.
25. A story inside a story - like Frankenstein - is called a _________ narrative.
2. What did they steal from Sethe?
5. Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain” is a tribute to ________
10. This poetic form is a love song to the morning
12. Toni Morrison, TS Eliot & Yeats all won this prestigious award for literature.
18. Robert Frost wrote a poem about this tree, exploring the loss of childhood innocence and accepting adult responsibilities
26. The biological mother of Troy’s youngest child.
27. There are 3 forms of this literary device: verbal, dramatic & situational
28. “Love is a battlefield” is an example of this literary device
29. The number of lines in a Shakespearean sonnet
30. “I have seen the Eternal Footman hold my ________ and snicker. And in short, I was afraid.”
31. The other way Frost suggests the world might end.
32. In “The Garden” this word is used to explore the relationship between violence and sex...a kiss or a hit….
33. Speaker of “I am not what I am.”
34. Poet of “To Prisoners”
35. Troy’s best friend
36. Author of Beloved
37. Frost’s line “From what I’ve tasted of _________ I hold with those who favor X.
38. Where Adam & Eve ate the apple.
39. Her name means “ill-fated” and she certainly was
40. Two poetic lines
41. A brief quote introducing a literary work
42. The Belle of Amherst who wrote “Because I could not stop for Death….”
43. “My love is like a red red rose” is an example of this kind of comparison.
44. His Holy Sonnets include “Death Be Not Proud”
45. This device is a pattern that is repeated across literary works, like an archetype
46. There are seven deadly ones - including jealousy
47. He boasted that “Death ain’t nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.”
48. A poetic line of iambs with 8 syllables would be ______meter
49. I:sky street/retreat hotel/shell argument/intent it/visit are examples from the first stanza of “Prufrock”