Fall Festival

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Across
  1. 1. Hints or clues about what will happen later
  2. 4. Ichabod Crane appears in this fall classic by Washington Irving
  3. 6. Words that link ideas together like however or also
  4. 7. The ship the Pilgrims sailed in on
  5. 10. Bird often associated with Thanksgiving
  6. 12. Word meaning “showing thanks”
  7. 15. An author’s attitude or tone toward their subject or audience
  8. 17. The person telling the story
  9. 19. The season of gathering crops like corn, squash, and apples
  10. 20. The U.S. President who made Thanksgiving a national holiday
  11. 24. Authors use this to grab the reader’s attention at the start of a story or essay
  12. 25. The points of highest tension in a story
  13. 26. The central idea or message in a work of literature
  14. 28. Word for a story passed down through generations
  15. 29. The U.S. President who moved Thanksgiving in 1939 to boost shopping season
  16. 30. A word or phrase that appeals to the five senses
Down
  1. 2. The Native American tribe who celebrated the first Thanksgiving
  2. 3. The grammatical name for a word like “Wow!”
  3. 5. The boy wizard who goes to Hogwarts
  4. 8. Thanksgiving is always celebrated on this Thursday in November
  5. 9. Another word for “evidence” in an essay
  6. 11. The sequence of events in a story
  7. 13. antonym for the word literal; often used in poetry
  8. 14. When an object represents a bigger idea (like a heart = love)
  9. 16. This U.S. state was the site of the first Thanksgiving
  10. 18. This narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters
  11. 21. A brief story that teaches a moral, often with animals
  12. 22. Author of “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Raven”
  13. 23. A contradiction in terms, such as jumbo shrimp or deafening silence
  14. 27. a synonym for narrative