ELA Recap

1. a famous horror writer who wrote The Raven and died in Baltimore
3. not certain or fixed; provisional.
4. the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.
6. the representation of persons in narrative and dramatic works
9. the genocide of European Jews during World War II.
11. free (someone or something) from a constraint or difficulty.
12. a memoir about Melba Beals' childhood in Little Rock, Arkansas
14. a short story about a magical object that grants people wishes
16. a literary device that uses symbols to represent abstract ideas
17. a genre characterized by suspense and spooky settings

2. the reason an author writes a text
5. a group of African American students who enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
7. the lesson or moral of a story
8. a graphic novel about the Holocaust where the Jewish people are mice
10. make practical and effective use of
13. a short story about a man who plans to kill his roommate
15. to the emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story