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