ELAR Academic Vocabulary

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