Weekly Vocabulary - Crossword

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Across
  1. 5. the way an author writes (tone, word choice, grammar, etc.)
  2. 6. condense a story to its main topic and points
  3. 7. struggle between two opposing forces
  4. 9. using evidence from the text to say what may happen next
  5. 11. specific, relevant details directly quoted from the text
  6. 13. communication between characters, signaled by quotation marks
  7. 15. repeating consonant sounds at the beginning of words
  8. 16. comparing two unlike things
  9. 18. background information provided to inform why; backstory
  10. 20. a purposeful reference to an event, place, or person (real or fictional)
  11. 22. writer’s attitude towards the subject matter or audience
  12. 23. an author’s reason for writing
  13. 26. specific word choice
Down
  1. 1. main point or message of a piece of writing
  2. 2. symbolic image or idea repeated throughout a story
  3. 3. when the author gives hints about what will happen in the future to create tension
  4. 4. person or people for whom an author writes
  5. 5. time and place a story takes place
  6. 8. thinking beyond the text; using clues to draw conclusions
  7. 10. feeling or idea a word has beyond the denotative definition
  8. 12. literal meaning/dictionary definition
  9. 14. word use designed to stimulate the five sentences (sight, taste, hearing, touch, and smell)
  10. 17. giving human characteristics to non-human things
  11. 18. person, animal, or creature in a story
  12. 19. a gross exaggeration used to prove a point
  13. 21. idea or character type universal to human experience
  14. 24. comparing two things using like or as
  15. 25. feelings of the reader based on the text