ELAR Academic Vocabulary
Across
- 2. a means by which an author presents material that occurred earlier than the present tense of the narrative
- 5. the main character in a literary work
- 7. the final part of the plot that brings the story to a close
- 9. explains ideas about real people, places, ideas, or events
- 13. a struggle between opposing forces in a literary work
- 14. a person , animal, or entity in a literary work
- 16. a comparison of two different things that are similar in some way
- 17. a central idea of a work of literature that is evident from actions and events in it
- 18. the author's choice of words
- 21. writing that tells about imaginary characters and events
- 22. a conversation between characters
- 25. a type of literature
- 27. when a writer gives human characteristics to non-human objects
- 28. a story of a person's life written by another author
- 30. the third part of the plot that offers the highest point of action
- 31. language that appeals to any of the 5 senses
Down
- 1. the sequence of events in a story
- 3. a feeling f uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work
- 4. the first part of the plot that introduces the characters, basic situations, and setting
- 6. a writer's account of his or her own life
- 8. the use of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur
- 10. a story written to be performed on stage
- 11. when a reader expects something and gets the opposite or says something that means the opposite
- 12. when/where the story takes place
- 15. a brief true story about an interesting, amusing, or strange event told to entertain or make a point
- 19. a group of lines in a poem that acts like a paragraph in a poem
- 20. The writer's attitude towards his or her work; can be recognized by word choice
- 23. story a brief work of fiction
- 24. action the part of the plot that leads to the climax
- 26. the feeling created in the reader
- 29. the uniformity of grammatical sentence parts