Across
- 2. claim/ a statement all members of a group
- 4. a conversation between characters; the lines spoken in a drama
- 7. introduces the story's conflict, character, and setting
- 9. the person who tells a story
- 10. verse/ poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza arrangement
- 14. writing about real people, places, and events
- 16. a traditional story of unknown authorship often involving goddesses, gods, heroes, and super natural forces
- 18. an interruption in the story that tells about something that happened in the past
- 19. a story written to be performed by actors
- 21. idea/ the most important idea expressed in a paragraph or text
- 24. the author's use of clues to prepare the reader for event that will happen later in the story
- 25. the struggle between two opposing forces
- 26. a figure of speech that compares two seemingly things without using like or as
- 27. the point of highest emotion; the turning point of the story
- 29. a figure of speech in which an animal, object, force of nature, or an idea is given human form or characteristics
- 30. purpose/ an author's intent in writing a literary work
- 31. overstating something or stretching the truth
Down
- 1. a leaning towards a certain opinion or position topic
- 3. the repetition of constant sounds at the beginning of a non-rhyming words in a poem
- 5. a narrative in which situations and characters are made up by the writer
- 6. descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the five senses
- 8. the logical result of the climax
- 11. a major unit of a drama or play
- 12. the use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes
- 13. an in-direct reference to a well-known person, character, place, event concept, or literary work
- 15. language used for descriptive effect
- 17. a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion. make a point, or evoke humor
- 20. the emotional quality or atmosphere of a story or poem
- 22. a contrast between the way things seem and the way they really are
- 23. an expression that means something different from the literal meaning of the words that make
- 28. up
