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