Short Story Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. An interruption in the action of the story which shifts the action back to another time
  2. 3. The author's attitude about his/her subject
  3. 6. The curiosity the reader has about what will happen next
  4. 7. The time and place of a story
  5. 8. Descriptive language that paints a picture in your mind
  6. 10. The leading character
  7. 11. The arrangement of events in a story
  8. 12. The end of the story, the conflict is resolved
  9. 13. The conversation between two characters
  10. 14. The major idea of a story; usually includes a lesson or moral
  11. 15. The people in a story
  12. 17. A story that is told or written
  13. 19. Hints about events that will occur further in the story
  14. 20. The person telling you the story
  15. 21. Something that represents something else
Down
  1. 2. The villain, works against the protagonist
  2. 4. Giving human characteristics to animals or non-living things
  3. 5. A comparison of two things using "like" or "as"
  4. 9. A comparison of two different objects without like or as
  5. 15. The turning point
  6. 16. Beginning of the story where setting, characters, & conflict are introduced
  7. 18. The problem in a story
  8. 22. The feeling or emotion the reader gets from a story or poem