GENRE ELEMENTS: Fiction Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. traditional stories that are passed down and include an explanation of how things came to be
  2. 3. Directions information about the setting and characters that are not spoken out loud in a drama
  3. 7. Scheme the pattern of words that rhyme at the end of each line
  4. 9. traditional stories that have been passed down orally through generations
  5. 12. when words are used to imitate the sound they describe
  6. 14. stories that are based on historical events but have been exaggerated over time
  7. 16. Character, a character who plays a significant part in the story
  8. 17. a person or thing who plays a part in a story
  9. 20. the main subject of a story
  10. 22. the repetition of sounds at the beginning of two or more words near each other
Down
  1. 2. a subdivision of an act in a play, happening in one specific time and place
  2. 4. Character, a character who plays a smaller part in the story
  3. 5. the lines the characters speak out loud in a drama
  4. 6. a major division within a play
  5. 7. the end of the story where the conflict is resolved in one way or another
  6. 8. Tales stories with magical and fanciful elements that usually have a happy ending
  7. 10. short stories; often with animal characters; that teach a moral or lesson
  8. 11. Device a technique used by authors to emphasize certain sounds
  9. 13. literary work that is structured as a play and meant to be performed on a stage
  10. 15. a grouped set of lines within a poem
  11. 18. the problem in the story that the main character needs to face; it may be internal or external
  12. 19. when and where the story takes place
  13. 21. the series of events that take place in a story
  14. 23. the big idea or lesson you learn from a story; the message the author wants to share with you
  15. 24. two or more words with the same final sounds