Reading Terminology

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Across
  1. 2. when a poem is written without a pattern of rhyme, meter, or line length.
  2. 5. The beginning, middle, and end; logical order
  3. 6. a figure of speech in which two things are compared, usually by saying one thing is another (Example‐ “Kate is a chicken” or “The snow is a white blanket” )
  4. 8. a title or brief explanation added to an article, illustration, cartoon, or poster (provides the main idea)
  5. 11. not based on true events
  6. 12. a logical guess
  7. 13. a figure of speech that uses ‘like’, ‘as’, or ‘as if’ to compare two essentially different objects, actions, or attributes (Her fingers were as cold as ice. Andy ran like a cheetah.)
  8. 14. a person or anything presented as a person, in a literary work
  9. 17. A section or division of a poem; specifically, a grouping of lines
  10. 19. a small object such as a book, weapon etc, used by actors in a play or film
  11. 20. expository text, the purpose of the author is to inform, explain, describe, or define his or her subject to the reader
  12. 23. words that create an image in the reader’s mind using the five senses
  13. 25. they act as transition words by leading the reader to think in the direction you want them to go. They usually assist the reader in locating the main idea.
  14. 26. a literary work which is funny or amusing and ends well, is written to have a good ending and to make people laugh
  15. 27. a nonfiction selection based on a person’s life that is written by the person
  16. 31. A poem, such as a sonnet or an ode that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. A lyric poem may resemble a song in form or style.
  17. 34. A struggle between a character and an outside force; or a struggle undergone by a character internally.
  18. 37. the special language authors use to create pictures in the reader’s mind
  19. 39. a word that imitates the sound it represents.
  20. 40. scenery and staging of a dramatic production
  21. 41. a division with no change of locale or abrupt shift of time
  22. 42. a playwright's descriptive or interpertive comments that provide the readers (and actors) with information about the dialogue, setting, and action of a play
  23. 45. a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language
  24. 46. the end of the line of a poem, and the beginning of a new line
  25. 47. the narrator is also a character in his or her story and describes the action that happens to himself
  26. 48. the way in which a word or name is pronounced
  27. 49. the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line
  28. 50. various ways of manipulating and placing text to draw attention to or emphasize certain points or ideas in narrative (e.g. bolding or boxing questions, italicizing key vocabulary, listing, bulleting, numbering).
  29. 53. Your prior knowledge, background knowledge
  30. 54. a story acted out, usually on a stage by actors and actresses who take the parts of specific characters (Dramatic Literature)
Down
  1. 1. a figure of speech in which human characteristics are attributed to animals, plants, inanimate objects, natural forces or abstract ideas (Example‐ The moon followed me. )
  2. 3. the form of a word after all affixes are removed
  3. 4. to use a few words to give the most important information or the main points of something.
  4. 7. one of the main divisions of a play or opera
  5. 9. a conversation between two characters
  6. 10. an affix that is added to the end of the word to change its meaning or to form a different word.
  7. 15. the message or central idea of a drama (moral)
  8. 16. phrases which people use in everyday language which do not make sense literally, but we understand what they mean .
  9. 18. a nonfiction piece that is written in a narrative format
  10. 21. develops one idea.
  11. 22. the group of actors in a play, film, or television show
  12. 23. the act, process, or method of forming or dividing words
  13. 24. an additional element placed at the beginning or end of a root, stem, or word, or in the body of a word, to modify its meaning
  14. 28. when two words sound the same at the end
  15. 29. the perspective from which the story is told
  16. 30. a nonfiction genre based on a person’s life
  17. 32. provides visual documentation of the topic
  18. 33. a long, uninterrupted speech (in a narrative or drama) that is spoken in the presence of the characters
  19. 35. an alphabetical list of names, subjects, etc., with references to the places where they occur, typically found at the end of a book.
  20. 36. the author of the drama or play
  21. 38. the narrator is describing the action that happened to someone else -- not the narrator himself
  22. 41. a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance
  23. 43. an alphabetical list of terms or words found in or relating to a specific subject, text, or dialect, with explanations; a brief dictionary.
  24. 44. a list of chapters or divisions in a book, usually located in the front
  25. 48. an affix placed before a word, base, or another prefix to modify a term's meaning (creates a new word)
  26. 51. in general, a literary work in which the central character meets an unhappy or disastrous end
  27. 52. the pattern of beats or a series of stressed and unstressed