ELA Terms

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Across
  1. 2. Author’s attitude towards the topic they are writing about
  2. 4. Literal meaning of a passage; states the main points of a text
  3. 6. Focus of a text; what the text is about
  4. 10. paragraph format used in class
  5. 11. Final paragraph in an essay that leaves the reader with something to think about
  6. 12. Aspects of a text that show what information is important or necessary to understand the text
  7. 16. How information is organized in a text
  8. 17. What the author wants the reader to feel
  9. 19. literal definition of a word
  10. 20. Answer to a prompt or question in a paragraph; first sentence of a short response
Down
  1. 1. Conclusion based on evidence; educated guess
  2. 3. Message the author is trying to convey to the reader; life lesson
  3. 5. format used in ELA for essays and research papers
  4. 7. person who wrote the text
  5. 8. words that rhyme at the end of lines in a poem that form a pattern; denoted by the letters of the alphabet
  6. 9. emotional association with a word
  7. 13. reason why a particular quote is being used for evidence to support a point
  8. 14. Final sentence in an introductory paragraph that says what the essay will be about
  9. 15. word that joins words and phrases in a sentence; FANBOYS and SWABI
  10. 18. person sharing the story