8th Grade ELA Vocabulary Review

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Across
  1. 2. The spoken words between characters
  2. 3. The opposite viewpoint or argument to the main claim
  3. 5. The reason the author wrote the text
  4. 6. A conclusion made using textual evidence and background information
  5. 7. Words or phrases from the text that support your answer or idea
  6. 9. The ways in which two or more things are different
  7. 14. Sequence in which events are arranged in the order they happened
  8. 15. Idea What the passage is mostly about
  9. 16. A short retelling of the most important parts of a story or passage
  10. 18. Facts or details used to support a claim or argument
  11. 20. The feeling the reader is supposed to get from the text
  12. 22. A comparison using "like" or "as"
  13. 23. The ways in which two or more things are alike
  14. 24. To break something down into parts to understand it better
Down
  1. 1. The perspective from which a story is told
  2. 3. How an author shows what a character is like
  3. 4. The author’s attitude toward the topic or audience
  4. 8. The repetition of beginning sounds in words
  5. 10. A message the author wants the reader to take from a story
  6. 11. Hints or clues about what will happen later in the story
  7. 12. The main argument or position in a piece of writing
  8. 13. Words and/or phrases that go beyond literal meaning
  9. 17. A direct comparison saying one thing is another
  10. 19. The main problem or struggle in a story
  11. 21. Giving human qualities to non-human things