9th Grade Essential Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. Hints or clues to what will happen later
  2. 5. Prose or verse written to present a story, and intended to be performed on stage
  3. 6. A side character in a piece of literature; one who interacts with the major character but is not the center of the story
  4. 7. A statement that is not predictable from its usual or literal meaning
  5. 9. The use of symbols to signify ideas that are different from the literal meaning
  6. 13. A unit of poetic verse consisting of two consecutive rhyming lines; usually signals the end of a scene
  7. 17. A long speech given by a character alone on stage that expresses his or her thoughts aloud, to themselves
  8. 19. Prose or Verse written to present a story
  9. 20. Character undeveloped, underdeveloped, or simple (boring) characters
  10. 21. A long speech given by one character to an intended audience
  11. 23. A poetic meter that contains five feet
  12. 24. Characters that noticeably change or grow throughout the story
  13. 26. The interruption of chronological order in a story to go back to past events in a main character’s life
  14. 28. A short speech, directed to the audience, that is not supposed to be heard by other characters on stage
  15. 29. An underlying message or "big idea" within a story. Literature can have more than one theme.
  16. 30. The unit of rhythm in poetry; the pattern of beats
Down
  1. 2. A reference to something outside the story (event, place, person, etc.). Allusions can be Shakespearean, Biblical, Classical, or Historical
  2. 3. Using contradictory, or opposite, terms together
  3. 4. A unit of meter that has an unstressed/stressed pattern
  4. 8. Comparison using “like” or “as”
  5. 10. Giving human characteristics to non-human things
  6. 11. Character well-developed, complex characters
  7. 12. Conversations between characters in a piece of literature; quotation marks are used around dialogue
  8. 14. The main character in a piece of literature; one who is in almost every scene or whom the story is about
  9. 15. An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect
  10. 16. Characters that don’t change throughout the story
  11. 18. Language used in specific rural, social, cultural, or geographic locations that is different from the norm; slang
  12. 22. Minor characters that are stereotypical of characters in most works of literature (i.e. the outcast, the funny guy, etc.)
  13. 25. Comparisons NOT using “like” or “as”
  14. 27. A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry