2024 ELA Boot Camp Literary Vocabulary Refresher

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Across
  1. 3. a restatement of the most important details in a text; in literary texts, this usually includes the main character, their problem, and their solution
  2. 4. how an author describes characters' personalities and appearances; may be directly stated or inferred
  3. 7. to cause an event to happen or a circumstance to change
  4. 8. support for ideas drawn from the text
  5. 9. words characters in a text speak to one another
  6. 10. author's attitude in the text determined by word choice
Down
  1. 1. educated guesses based on information from the text
  2. 2. build-up to an important event
  3. 5. a reference to another text, pop culture, or other widely-known ideas
  4. 6. reader's feelings in reading the text
  5. 8. a lesson or moral learned in the story; most often, if the character suffers a consequence, the text is teaching readers not to do something; if the character experiences something good, the theme is usually teaching readers what they should do