7th ELA

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Across
  1. 6. an author's attitude toward a subject
  2. 7. to copy the exact words from a source enclosing them in quotation marks
  3. 8. an educated guess based on information and evidence in a text
  4. 10. a word that has the same meaning as another word
  5. 12. a person or animal in a fictional text
  6. 14. the repeated pattern of sounds used in poetry
  7. 15. a short restatement of a text in a reader's own words
  8. 16. a short story with a moral or lesson often has animal characters
  9. 18. the turning point in the story, usually the most exciting part
  10. 20. writing that conveys information using facts and other details about real people in real places at real events
  11. 21. a specific reference within a research paper to a source of information
  12. 23. the rate of speed in which events are described in a narrative
  13. 27. a quality that defines a character
  14. 28. the reason a character acts in a certain way
  15. 29. a word's dictionary definition
  16. 32. a listing of new words that mean the same or are similar to other words generally used to avoid repetition and make writing more interesting
  17. 34. the author of a play
  18. 35. a sentence that contains two or more independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction
  19. 39. writing that tells a story
  20. 40. a personal belief that cannot be proven true and with which others may disagree
  21. 41. a type of literature
  22. 42. a word that shows relationships among ideas and helps writing to flow
  23. 43. a group of words that contains a subject and a predicate
  24. 45. language that appeals to the five senses
  25. 46. the repetition of sounds at the end of lines
  26. 48. language that creates images within the reader's mind and not meant to be taken literal
  27. 49. a statement of an author's point of view in an argument, which an author must prove
Down
  1. 1. the reason an author writes a text
  2. 2. a sentence containing one independent clause and one dependent clause
  3. 3. to check that a paper is well organized and to make any needed changes
  4. 4. the sentence that is the main idea of a paragraph
  5. 5. the part of a sentence that contains the verb
  6. 9. the background or circumstances in which events occur
  7. 11. a traditional story that tells about a culture's heroes or ancestors or gods or goddesses
  8. 13. something that supports the central idea of an essay
  9. 17. the major division in a play
  10. 19. the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
  11. 21. the emotional weight a word carries or the associations that the word implies
  12. 22. a list of key words and their definitions
  13. 24. a source that is created by eyewitnesses
  14. 25. using someone else's words as your own and failing to use quotation marks or give credit to the source
  15. 26. a literary work produced from a writer's imagination
  16. 30. a work of imaginative or creative writing that is considered exceptional
  17. 31. the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
  18. 33. a subdivision of an act with a fixed setting
  19. 36. the words spoken by characters to each others
  20. 37. the main part of a word
  21. 38. a literary work intended to be performed by actors for an audience
  22. 44. a word that shows action or describes a state of being
  23. 47. a title over a section of a text most of the time larger and darker print