Academic Language Lists 1-4
Across
- 4. hints or clues about something that will happen in the future
- 5. a sentence that has a subject, a verb, and a period; states a fact
- 6. when the writer pauses the story to remember something that already happened
- 7. a sound effect written out
- 11. words that join other words or groups of words
- 13. words that express an action or state of being
- 14. physical appearance, speech and actions, personality types
- 16. an expression that doesn't take the words' literal meaning
- 17. a nonhuman thing acts human
- 18. words that show a relationship between a noun or pronoun and the rest of the sentence
- 20. when the writer pauses the story to tell the reader what happens in the future
- 23. asks a question, ends with a question mark
- 24. writing that has elements made up or from someone's imagination
- 25. narrator is a character in the story
- 26. words that describe or modify nouns
Down
- 1. expresses great emotion or excitement
- 2. an exaggeration
- 3. narrator is an outside observer and knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters
- 8. modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb
- 9. word that is used instead of a noun or noun phrase
- 10. language a writer uses to create a picture in your mind
- 12. comparing two things using like or as
- 14. when you read an unfamiliar word or phrase and you use the phrases before or after to figure out the meaning
- 15. narrator is an outside observer and knows the thoughts and feelings of one character
- 19. a sentence where the subject is inferred, has a request or command, ends in period or maybe an exclamation point
- 21. words that name people, places, things, or ideas
- 22. comparing two things not using like or as