8th Grade - ELA Vocabulary

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