Reading STAAR Review Puzzle

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Across
  1. 4. the attitude, or feeling that the author has about the subject
  2. 6. The theme or moral of the story
  3. 11. should be used when you dont know what a word means
  4. 12. An exaggeration
  5. 13. in a play,written in italics inside parenthesis
  6. 14. conversation between two or more characters
  7. 16. the pattern of rhyme in a poem (ex. ABA)
  8. 18. author of a play
  9. 19. a story written to be performed by actors, a play
Down
  1. 1. Struggle between opposing forces or characters
  2. 2. The sun smiled
  3. 3. clues author gives to suggest events occurring in the future
  4. 5. language that appeals to the 5 senses
  5. 7. combining new information and your background knowledge
  6. 8. comparing using like or as
  7. 9. using clues in text to find the meaning of words
  8. 10. How the author thinks or feels about a topic
  9. 15. Turning point of a story
  10. 17. the feeling or emotion the reader gets when reading a passage