STAAR Skills Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. Something that doesn't seem true, but is
  2. 4. Smaller plots in the story
  3. 6. Characters who are opposites that bring out each others' traits
  4. 7. What you use to connect ideas
  5. 10. A conversation in a play where only one person is talking
  6. 11. Hints for what is going to happen later
  7. 13. An image that repeats throughout the text and is tied to theme
  8. 15. Verbs used as adjectives
  9. 16. Language that enriches and adds detail to the text
  10. 17. Point of view
  11. 18. One character speaking alone on stage
  12. 22. Techniques used in plays
  13. 25. The author's attitude toward his or her subject
  14. 27. Character description
  15. 28. A sentence with one independent clause
  16. 29. An intentional under-exaggeration
  17. 31. Language that engages your senses and creates pictures in your mind
  18. 32. When you know something that the characters in the story do not
  19. 33. Educated guess based on the text
  20. 34. A quote from the story to support your answer
  21. 35. A sentence with two or more independent clauses
Down
  1. 2. Word choice
  2. 3. Verbs used as noins
  3. 4. Facts and figures
  4. 5. A sentence with two independent and one dependent clause
  5. 6. Showing how two things are alike and different
  6. 8. The main idea of the essay
  7. 9. Lesson or moral of the story
  8. 12. Multiple plots that happen at the same time
  9. 14. You expect one thing, but get something else
  10. 16. Returning to a moment that happened before
  11. 18. An opinion with facts to back it up
  12. 19. A sentence with one independent and one dependent clause
  13. 20. To + verb
  14. 21. The author's opinions on another text
  15. 23. Main idea
  16. 24. An intentional over-exaggeration
  17. 26. An opinion without facts to back it up
  18. 30. The art of persuasion