8th Grade English year in review crossword
Across
- 5. The E in MEAL paragraph
- 7. A short section within a poem
- 8. The shared vowel sound in bow down is called _____________
- 9. The living European language from which English gets many long but hard-to-spell words come from
- 10. Cheating by copying someone’s work is called ____________
- 13. One of the 12 Powerful Words that is often paired with compare
- 14. When Lennie accidentally kills the mouse in Of Mice and Men this is an example of ___________
- 17. The slanted style of lettering used for movie and book names
- 20. The poetic effect used when you say “Peter Piper picked a peck”; sometimes called front rhyme
- 24. I’ll say it again. I’ll say it again. I’ll say it again.
- 25. Technique in which a story starts at the end and then jumps back in time
Down
- 1. The book title Of Mice and Men is an __________ to a famous poem by Robert Burns
- 2. One of the 12 Powerful Words than means to “read between the lines”
- 3. When Anne Frank writes about the progress of World War II and the treatment of the Jews, this is an __________ conflict
- 4. The study of word roots
- 6. Typed academic papers from this point forward needed to be __________ spaced
- 10. Acclaimed writer Billy Collins used to hold this title
- 11. The first part of any story in which you learn the setting and characters
- 12. Something that is the opposite of poetic is merely ________
- 15. Pow! Crash! Bang!
- 16. The opposite of objective
- 18. The fact that Thessa Warr is a peace loving person is an example of _________
- 19. To give constructive criticism is to ___________ (begins with C)
- 21. When Anne Frank writes in her diary about identity issues this is an __________ conflict
- 22. One of the 12 Powerful Words that means to judge
- 23. The opposite of subjective
- 26. The dead European language from which English gets many long but easy-to-spell words
- 27. Homophone for sight and site. Remember to ________ your sources in an academic paper.