Across
- 6. when an author or speaker asks their audience a question they do not expect a literal answer to.
- 7. two or more lines separated by a significant space.
- 9. how a character grows or changes during a story. These changes may occur based on their interactions with other characters, settings, or plot events.
- 16. within the middle of the lines of a poem, there are words that rhyme.
- 20. the use of words/phrases to describe something without using literal meaning.
- 23. when an author tries to appeal to their audience by bringing in credible/reliable sources to quote, bringing in arguments/reasonings to support/disprove someone’s character or what is right vs. wrong.
- 24. the repeating of a word or phrase within a text.
- 25. the character or narrator’s attitudes, beliefs, thoughts, or emotions regarding a topic, person, event, situation, etc.
- 32. using clues within the beginning or middle of a story to foreshadow what will happen later in the story.
- 33. When someone says one thing but may mean the opposite, expressing sarcasm, humor, frustration, or anger.
- 34. when the final word of the lines rhyme.
- 35. the narrator tells the story from one or multiple characters’ points of view; readers are told the inner thoughts and feelings of other characters.
- 37. the narrator talks directly to the readers as if conversing in person.
- 39. when the end of the first line rhymes with the third line and the last line of the second line rhymes with the fourth and the pattern repeats throughout the entire poem.
- 40. a word’s dictionary definition.
- 41. restating a sentence without using the same terminology by using synonyms, while still capturing the entire meaning of the original sentence.
Down
- 1. a ideas/feelings associated with a word.
- 2. giving human characteristics to non living things.
- 3. making a reference to something from a different time period, text, historical person, etc.
- 4. a situation in which there is an opposite between expectation and reality.
- 5. a huge exaggeration.
- 8. using descriptive words to appeal to one of the five senses.
- 10. making a claim when the evidence is minimal to support it; if this appears within an argument, it automatically weakens the argument or supporting reason.
- 11. when the author provides a scene from a memory or earlier event that did not occur in the present.
- 12. comparing two unlike things without using like or as.
- 13. when the characters or readers expect a certain outcome, but the opposite happens.
- 14. the lesson of a story; it is a statement that could apply to all readers and is not a one word topic.
- 15. the narrator tells the story from a personal perspective using pronouns I, me, myself.
- 17. comparing two unlike things using like or as.
- 18. the author’s side of an argument they are promoting.
- 19. the main idea of what a specific paragraph or entire story is about.
- 21. the narrator tells the story from a character’s point of view using their name or referring to them by their pronouns. Readers only see inside the thoughts of the character telling the story.
- 22. when an author tries to convince someone using a logical argument often using facts, data, statistics, numbers to achieve this.
- 26. when an author tries to appeal to a reader’s emotions.
- 27. the opposing side of an argument.
- 28. when two or more words share the same beginning consonant sound.
- 29. widely used sayings or expressions that are not meant to be taken literally.
- 30. when the readers do not know something the characters do or when the readers know something the characters do not.
- 31. the perspective from which a story is told.
- 36. when a word used in context sounds exactly as the sound it makes.
- 38. reasons to support and advance an argument.