ELA Vocabulary Review

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Across
  1. 1. Figurative language that expresses something whose meaning is different from the meaning of its individual words.
  2. 6. The message of the story, the moral or lesson that the author wants you to learn from the story.
  3. 7. An educated guess using your schema (prior knowledge) and evidence from the text to make a judgement, form and opinion, or draw a conclusion.
  4. 9. Created by putting words together in an interesting way – often expresses a feeling, creates a mental picture, tells a story, etc. Can include rhymes, stanzas, line breaks, etc.
  5. 11. Retell the story in your own words – includes the main idea, only important ideas, and is written in your own words
  6. 12. A type of figurative language that compares two unlike things using the words like or as
  7. 13. Explaining how things are different
  8. 14. Added to the ending of a base word, changes the meaning of the word
  9. 17. A type of figurative language that compares two unlike things and does NOT include the words like or as
Down
  1. 2. Stories that can be acted out in front of people or an audience. Often contains scenes, characters, a narrator, setting, dialogue, stage directions, and a script
  2. 3. The parts a play is divided into, the actions that take place in a single setting
  3. 4. Tells the order in which events happen in real life (first, next, last, years, numbers, etc.)
  4. 5. The ”paragraph” in a poem. It is a group of lines in a poem that are separated from each other by a space
  5. 8. Figurative language that gives human qualities to animals or inanimate objects.
  6. 10. Added to the beginning of a base word, changes the meaning of the word
  7. 15. Explains how things are the same, alike
  8. 16. Stories that were originally told orally and usually teach a lesson. Characters can be animals or people, based on traditions and beliefs of people