vocabulary
Across
- 2. The conclusion of a story.
- 5. the central or main character that a story revolves around.
- 8. A conversation between characters the lines spoken in a drama.
- 9. A figure of speech that compares two seemingly like things without 'like' or 'as'.
- 12. the use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes.
- 13. The sequence of events in story, play, or narrative poem.
- 17. A leaning towards a certain opinion or position on a topic.
- 18. A retelling of the main events or ideas of a piece of writing.
- 19. A figure of speech in which an animal, object, force of nature, or an idea is given human form or characteristics
- 21. The author's use of clues to prepare the reader for events that will happen later in the story.
- 23. Descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the five sences.
- 24. An expression that means something different from the literal meaning of words that make it up.
- 25. An in-direct reference to a well-known person, character, place, event, concept, or literacy work.
- 26. overstating something or stretching the truth.
- 29. A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke.
- 31. The time and place in which events of a story occur
Down
- 1. The point of highest emotion the turning point in the story
- 3. person who tells a story.
- 4. The emotional quality or atmosphere of a story or poem.
- 6. Any object, person, place, or experience that means more than what it is.
- 7. Writng about real people, places, and events.
- 10. A short saying (usually found in a speech) with a humorous or iconic twist.
- 11. A type of speech or writing , usually non-fiction, that attempts to convince audience members to think to act in a particular way.
- 13. A form of literary expression that contains lines and stanzas.
- 14. A group of lines forming a unit in a poem.
- 15. The struggle between two opposing forces.
- 16. A narrative in which situations and characters are made up by the writer
- 20. A story written to be performed by actors.
- 22. A type of figurative language that uses "like" or "as" to compare two unlike things.
- 27. The central message of a work of literature often expressed as a general statement about life.
- 28. A contrast between the way things seem and the way they really are.
- 30. A traditional story of unknown authorship often involving goddesses, gods, heroes, and supernatural forces that attempts to explain why or how something came to be.