6th Grade ELA Words

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Across
  1. 2. a problem, challenge, or obstacle
  2. 3. sky)
  3. 7. Describing something that isn’t human with human qualities or actions (The stars danced in
  4. 11. when and where a story takes place
  5. 12. Descriptive language that appeals to the five sense (sight, smell, taste, touch, sound)
  6. 13. An exaggeration used to make a point (I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse)
  7. 14. the events in a story (what happens; think “plot diagram”)
  8. 15. an intense feeling of sadness
  9. 17. to make money
  10. 19. to show differences (can mean difference if used as a noun)
  11. 21. how ideas or words are laid out or organized in a text
  12. 23. worried or concerned
  13. 25. groups of lines in a poem (like paragraphs)
Down
  1. 1. the perspective or point of view from which a something is told or represented
  2. 2. What an author states that they believe, usually something that can be argued
  3. 4. system of money in a country
  4. 5. to add, give, help, or strengthen
  5. 6. a strong want for something
  6. 8. the message, moral, or lesson of a story
  7. 9. the narrator of a poem
  8. 10. A comparison that doesn’t use like or as (Laughter is the best medicine)
  9. 15. a shortened retelling of the most important parts
  10. 16. when characters are speaking to each other (“Let’s go”, said Jamal.)
  11. 17. a text or story
  12. 18. what the text is mostly about; the main idea
  13. 20. the character/ person telling the story (can be third person- not really there)
  14. 22. to show
  15. 24. a comparison using like or as (She shines bright like a diamond)