8th Grade - ELA Vocabulary
Across
- 5. author/speaker's attitude toward a topic
- 8. universal message in a story that can apply to real life
- 9. literary technique where two ideas are placed next to each other to reveal contrast
- 12. the ways an author reveals and develops a character's personality
- 14. vivid description of how something looks, sounds, smells, tastes, or feels
- 15. atmosphere and emotion in a text
- 16. poems without a clear rhyme scheme or traditional form
- 17. reasoning and evidence that attempts to disprove a counterclaim
- 19. careful selection of words to convey a particular message
- 20. time and place where a story takes place
Down
- 1. type of poem with fourteen lines with a specific rhyme scheme and rhythm, ends in a couplet
- 2. information that clarifies what is happening in a moment or situation
- 3. genre of writing where the writer conveys their position
- 4. when the audience knows something that one or more characters do not
- 6. ending of the story
- 7. opinion or idea supported by evidence throughout the body of an essay
- 10. feeling of excitement, anxiety, or uncertainty about what will happen
- 11. struggle between two opposing forces in a story
- 13. an argument that supports the opposing viewpoint
- 18. details authors provide that hint at an event that will happen later