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