Common Core Vocab 1

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Across
  1. 1. a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things, compare two different things using "like" or "as"
  2. 3. someone who offers opposition
  3. 4. a short speech by an actor at the end of a play
  4. 5. the principal character in a work of fiction
  5. 9. an account of the author's personal experiences
  6. 10. something intended to distract or mislead attention from the main issue
  7. 11. using words that imitate the sound they denote
  8. 13. attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  9. 15. the sequence of events in a story
  10. 16. the ability to form mental pictures of things or events, descriptions for your senses (sight, smell, taste, feel, hear)
Down
  1. 2. a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity, compare two different things using "is"
  2. 4. a history of a word
  3. 6. the attribute of accepting the facts of life
  4. 7. expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from its words
  5. 8. a conclusion you can draw based on known evidence, "reading between the lines"
  6. 12. use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  7. 14. knowledge on which to base belief or to use as proof