Books & Literature Word Search
Literary Terms
imagery, fable, symbol, flashback, myth, mood, theme, folk tale, stanza, irony, climax, simile, drama, speaker, metaphor, setting, analogy, dialect, …
Creative Writing
simile, adjectives, metaphor, commas, punctuation, paragraphs, pronouns, show not tell, nouns, adverbs, speech marks, speech, superlatives, verbs, …
Treasure Island
cannons, beach, skeleton, sail, billy bones, seamen, cove, island, musket, logbook, treasure, ashore, pirates, cabin boy, crew, parrot
Sherlock Holmes
baker street, deduction, london, adventure, irene, novels, detective, observation, police, logic, forensics, crime
An Inspector Calls
socialism, engagement, gerald, titanic, inspector, sheila, taylor, priestley, responsibility, eva smith, suicide, birling, croft, renton, edna
Persuasive Writing
logos, argument, ethos, semicolon, opinion, descriptive, pathos, fact, conclusion, quotations, reasoning, claim, diction, evidence, writing, narrative
Story Elements
rising action, characters, antagonist, conflict, stanza, climax, idiom, imagery, plot, hyperbole, theme, resolution, setting, simile, alliteration, …
Tom Sawyer
Find words related to the adventures of Tom Sawyer, a character from the Mark Twain novels. He is probably best remembered for the incident in which he gets a number of other boys to whitewash his Aunt Polly's fence.
Poetry and Rhyme
idioms, strophe, songs, books, couplets, prose, literary, limerick, haiku, lyric, poems, cinquain, writing, homer, consonant, verse
Figurative Language
lines, repetition, onomatopoeia, elegy, simile, epic, lyric, allusion, limerick, haiku, oxymoron, acrostic, narrative, rhyme, stanzas, idiom, …
World Book Day
thriller, reading, author, comics, character, fiction, chapter, illustrator, library, books, horror, hero, manga, villain, setting, plot
Three Little Pigs
Three Little Pigs is a kids story about three pigs who build three houses of different materials like straws, sticks and bricks and a bad Wolf blows down the two pigs' houses.
Types of Books
horror, cookbooks, romance, dictionary, adventure, history, biography, fantasy, comic, satire, travel, thriller, health, poetry, action, mystery
Dr. Seuss Books
Word search based on Dr. Seuss work, that was a popular author of children's books, a cartoonist, animator poet, illustrator, screenwriter and film maker.
Poetry Terms
poetry, free verse, rhyme, ode, repetition, speaker, symbolism, assonance, metaphor, simile, stanza, onomatopoeia, lyric poem, rhyme scheme, imagery, …
US Authors
bradbury, faulkner, twain, williams, lee, james, capote, poe, pynchon, melville, kerouac, roth, whitman, pound, franzen, heller
The Giver
receiver, lily, ceremony, lois lowry, asher, bicycle, community, memory, father, job, release, twelve, jonas, mother, career, gabriel
Twelfth Night
romantic, comedy, william, shakespeare, play, disguise, illyria, maria, olivia, orsino, viola, twins, sir toby, musical, shipwreck, story
The Book Club
member, shipping, catalog, novel, discount, newsletter, update, plan, club, bulletin, sale, genre, choice, join, account, order
Lord Of The Flies
fire, island, roger, choir, scar, civilization , plane crash, hunters, castle rock, jack, piggy, lagoon, simon, death, golding, beastie, ship, ralph, …
Elements of a Story
climax, protagonist, short story, rising action, fiction, theme, introduction, plot, narrator, conflict, antagonist, resolution, characters, …
Cookbooks
appetizer, grilling, breads, pies, soups, candies, poultry, beverages, ethnic, salads, desserts, fruits, cakes, cookies, pasta, eggs
Narrative Writing
realistic, metaphor, verbs, hook, reader, nouns, adjectives, narrative, simile, characters, plot, resolution, suspense, setting, description, climax, …
