Academic Vocabulary Terms

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Across
  1. 2. The point in a play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the conflict reaches its greatest intensity
  2. 4. A literary technique by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character
  3. 6. Extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or effect; an extravagant statement that is not meant to be taken literally
  4. 7. A character who undergoes a significant internal change over the course of a story.
  5. 10. A character who does not undergo a significant change over the course of a story.
  6. 13. Clues or hints about something that is going to happen later in the story
  7. 14. The author’s attitude toward the subject matter or toward the reader or audience
  8. 15. A scene in a story that occurred before the present time in the story.
  9. 16. When two unlike things are compared—using like or as—in order to illuminate a particular quality or aspect of one of those things
  10. 17. The conversation between characters in a work of literature
  11. 19. The use of words whose sounds imitate the sounds of what they describe, such as hiss, murmur, growl, honk, buzz, woof, etc
  12. 21. A struggle between opposing forces
  13. 24. When two or more words in a group of words begin with the same consonant sound
Down
  1. 1. An object, setting, event, animal, or person that on one level is itself, but that has another meaning as well
  2. 3. Language that portrays sensory experiences, or experiences of the five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
  3. 5. The means through which an author reveals a character’s personality
  4. 8. The perspective from which a story is told
  5. 9. Describing nonhuman animals, objects, or ideas as though they possess human qualities or emotions
  6. 11. A story’s main message or mora
  7. 12. An expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its individual words
  8. 16. The environment in which a story takes place, including the time period, the location, and the physical characteristics of the surroundings
  9. 18. he feeling the reader gets from a work of literature
  10. 20. The opponent or enemy of the main character, or protagonist
  11. 22. The comparison of two unlike things to illuminate a particular quality or aspect of one of those things
  12. 23. The main or central character of a work of literature