ELA Vocabulary
Across
- 2. When words end with the same sound
- 4. A person or being in a story
- 5. A comparison that says one thing is another
- 8. Giving human qualities to something nonhuman
- 9. The main problem in a story
- 10. A phrase with a meaning different from the literal words
- 13. A comparison using "like" or "as"
- 14. The beats in a poem
- 15. Based on facts; free of personal opinions
- 18. A conclusion you make using clues
Down
- 1. An extreme exaggeration
- 3. A ______ sentence is made of two complete thoughts joined with a conjunction
- 4. A writer's main argument or position
- 6. The implied meaning of a word
- 7. A conversation between characters
- 11. The dictionary definition of a word
- 12. Uses "I", "me", and "my"
- 16. A joke based on wordplay or double meaning
- 17. The message or lesson a story teaches
- 19. Action The part of the story where tension builds