ELA Terms

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Across
  1. 4. a character that we don't know much about
  2. 7. A narrator who addresses a story to a someone he or she calls "you"
  3. 10. when an author reveals a charcter's traits through the things they say and their actions
  4. 17. a verb that acts like a noun
  5. 18. A passing reference in a text to a literary or historical person, place, ! event, or other literary work.
  6. 19. when the author directly describes a character
  7. 20. Text or dialogue in which there is a root sense of hiding what is actually the case in order to achieve special rhetorical or artistic effect
  8. 21. to plus a verb
  9. 22. a character we know a lot about
  10. 27. a character that stays the same
  11. 28. Words or expressions with meaning other than the literal interpretation
  12. 29. The author's attitude reflected in the style of the written word
Down
  1. 1. s a statement in which the meaning the speaker implies differs sharply from what is directly said.
  2. 2. The events and actions of a narrative work
  3. 3. The technique of disrupting the order of events in a story by shifting to an earlier time in order to introduce information
  4. 5. A type or class of literature (e.g., fiction, drama, poetry)
  5. 6. a verb that acts like an adjective
  6. 8. is represented by a mismatch between expectation and reality. For example, you save money for months to buy your new video game console, and the day before you finally go to get it, your mother surprises you with the new game system as a gift.
  7. 9. involves a situation in a play or story in which the author and the audience or reader have information that is unknown to the characters or actors.
  8. 11. life lesson or message a story is trying to convey
  9. 12. A narrator who is outside the story proper and refers to all of the characters as he, she, or they
  10. 13. A narrator who is a participant in the story and uses the pronouns “I” and “me”
  11. 14. The emotion(s) expressed by an author or artist in the rhetoric, structure, and/or perspective of his or her work
  12. 15. Chiefly in literary texts, the narrative point of view (as in first- or third-person narration)
  13. 16. The motive or reason for which an author writes, as to persuade, inform, or entertain (P.I.E.)
  14. 23. a character that changes throughout the story
  15. 24. The general place, historical time, and social circumstances in which action occurs in a story or play
  16. 25. Relationships created between new and familiar words, concepts, and ideas.
  17. 26. A deliberate and humorous play on words that are the same or similar in sound but different in meaning