Across
- 3. part of the word that gives a word its main meaning
- 4. the reason an author writes
- 5. a reason that something happens
- 7. an implied meaning of a word apart from its dictionary definition
- 8. language that means exactly what it says
- 11. the sequence of events in a story
- 12. when the present action in a story pauses to describe an earlier event
- 13. an educated guess based on evidence from the text and reader's prior knowledge
- 15. language that is not meant to be taken literal
- 16. the person who tells the story
- 23. the way an author decides to organize or present information
- 26. this helps writers organize their thoughts before drafting
- 29. the result of a cause
- 30. a statement that cannot be proven
- 31. a story that includes many elements that could not happen in real life and takes place in places that do not exist
- 33. a kind of writing
Down
- 1. a clue about what is going to happen later in a story
- 2. a document that relates information
- 6. the way a narrator tells a story
- 9. a word that takes place of a noun
- 10. literature written in lines using creative language that often includes rhythm and rhyme
- 11. firsthand account of an event
- 14. a problem in a story that needs to be solved
- 17. to put in your own words
- 18. time and place a story occurs
- 19. a statement that can be proven true or false
- 20. to gather information about a topic
- 21. sharing finished work with others
- 22. incomplete sentence
- 24. a group of lines that make up a verse in a poem
- 25. literature that is meant to be acted out
- 27. the word a pronoun refers to
- 28. a division of a book into logical parts
- 32. the main message or lesson of a text