Text Types and Riddles

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Across
  1. 6. Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red.
  2. 9. it is directed at a specific community or a specific group of people. It is not a public document for all. It contains information of interest to that specific group with pictures and subheadings
  3. 12. discuss a few carefully selected aspects of the book or film
  4. 13. contains your opinion as well as facts. Targets an audience and can be a part of something bigger
  5. 16. The more there is, the less you see
  6. 17. I’m not solid, but I can melt. What am I?
  7. 18. you address your audience directly, write your opinions on the matter, and you can ask readers to respond to your ideas
  8. 19. the basic purpose of these text types is publicity - and this can be divided broadly into 'inform' (e.g. health information) and 'promote' (e.g. selling something)
  9. 20. What time of day is spelled the same forwards and backwards?
  10. 22. question and answer style but does contain an introduction, date and title
  11. 24. You can’t keep this until you have given it.
  12. 25. contains thoughts, feelings, reflections that are written in secrecy
  13. 26. contains rhetorical devices like anaphora, asyndeton, antithesis, repetition and other tools
Down
  1. 1. If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don’t have it. What is it?
  2. 2. He has married many women but has never married. Who is he?
  3. 3. Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die.
  4. 4. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
  5. 5. They come at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen.
  6. 7. What gets wetter the more it dries?
  7. 8. contains non-fiction information. reports on important events and has a byline and witness accounts
  8. 10. can be formal or informal depending on who you are writing to and it has a subject
  9. 11. What cannot talk but will always reply when spoken to?
  10. 14. always written formally and contains a thesis statement
  11. 15. Take off my skin, I won’t cry, but you will. What am I?
  12. 21. formal, contains information, it is impersonal, there headings and subheadings, clarifies aspects and makes suggestions, and it concludes with a final assessment
  13. 23. using techniques such as bullets, sub-headings, numbering, will directly address the intended audience and break it down into clear and detailed advice