STAAR Skills Crossword

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