Reading Terminology

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Across
  1. 4. the pattern of beats or a series of stressed and unstressed
  2. 5. a small object such as a book, weapon etc, used by actors in a play or film
  3. 7. when a poem is written without a pattern of rhyme, meter, or line length.
  4. 9. a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language
  5. 10. words that create an image in the reader’s mind using the five senses
  6. 11. a logical guess
  7. 12. an affix that is added to the end of the word to change its meaning or to form a different word.
  8. 13. a list of chapters or divisions in a book, usually located in the front
  9. 14. not based on true events
  10. 15. the perspective from which the story is told
  11. 17. in general, a literary work in which the central character meets an unhappy or disastrous end
  12. 18. a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance
  13. 23. a nonfiction genre based on a person’s life
  14. 24. a nonfiction piece that is written in a narrative format
  15. 27. a person or anything presented as a person, in a literary work
  16. 28. scenery and staging of a dramatic production
  17. 29. the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line
  18. 30. 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” )
  19. 31. A section or division of a poem; specifically, a grouping of lines
  20. 32. a conversation between two characters
  21. 33. 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.
  22. 34. develops one idea.
  23. 37. a story acted out, usually on a stage by actors and actresses who take the parts of specific characters (Dramatic Literature)
  24. 39. a nonfiction selection based on a person’s life that is written by the person
  25. 40. the form of a word after all affixes are removed
  26. 41. provides visual documentation of the topic
  27. 43. 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).
  28. 45. the way in which a word or name is pronounced
  29. 46. an alphabetical list of terms or words found in or relating to a specific subject, text, or dialect, with explanations; a brief dictionary.
  30. 47. the narrator is also a character in his or her story and describes the action that happens to himself
  31. 48. when two words sound the same at the end
  32. 49. phrases which people use in everyday language which do not make sense literally, but we understand what they mean .
  33. 51. a division with no change of locale or abrupt shift of time
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  1. 1. the group of actors in a play, film, or television show
  2. 2. 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.)
  3. 3. a literary work which is funny or amusing and ends well, is written to have a good ending and to make people laugh
  4. 6. A struggle between a character and an outside force; or a struggle undergone by a character internally.
  5. 7. the special language authors use to create pictures in the reader’s mind
  6. 8. the author of the drama or play
  7. 10. The beginning, middle, and end; logical order
  8. 15. 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. )
  9. 16. an alphabetical list of names, subjects, etc., with references to the places where they occur, typically found at the end of a book.
  10. 19. 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.
  11. 20. the message or central idea of a drama (moral)
  12. 21. the narrator is describing the action that happened to someone else -- not the narrator himself
  13. 22. a playwright's descriptive or interpertive comments that provide the readers (and actors) with information about the dialogue, setting, and action of a play
  14. 25. expository text, the purpose of the author is to inform, explain, describe, or define his or her subject to the reader
  15. 26. Your prior knowledge, background knowledge
  16. 28. to use a few words to give the most important information or the main points of something.
  17. 31. the act, process, or method of forming or dividing words
  18. 35. the end of the line of a poem, and the beginning of a new line
  19. 36. a word that imitates the sound it represents.
  20. 38. a long, uninterrupted speech (in a narrative or drama) that is spoken in the presence of the characters
  21. 42. 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
  22. 44. a title or brief explanation added to an article, illustration, cartoon, or poster (provides the main idea)
  23. 45. an affix placed before a word, base, or another prefix to modify a term's meaning (creates a new word)
  24. 50. one of the main divisions of a play or opera