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Across
  1. 4. the author uses imagery, visualization, or details.
  2. 8. Idea/Main Idea: the author’s main point of the text or what the text is mostly about
  3. 9. person, place, thing, or idea
  4. 10. Confused Words: words that sound the same but have different meanings
  5. 13. repetition of of the same beginning sound, at least two (bitter banana)
  6. 18. author's purpose when an author wants to use steps or a process?
  7. 19. words that describe nouns
  8. 20. author's purpose when an author wants to CONVINCE the reader of something?
  9. 21. a word that expresses an action
  10. 22. comparison telling us something is something else
  11. 24. verb: words that tell us the “state” something or someone is in (is, am, are, was, were, be, being, been)
  12. 25. Language: a type of communication that does not use a word's strict or realistic meaning
  13. 26. & Solution:When an author organizes a text and states a problem and also states a clear way to fix the problem.
  14. 28. When an author organizes a text using steps or order.
  15. 30. of speech: How words function in a sentence, a category that describes a word plays in a sentence.
  16. 31. how the story makes YOU feel
Down
  1. 1. extreme exaggeration
  2. 2. Details: the information or facts or details that support the central/main idea
  3. 3. the author uses imagery, visualization, or details.
  4. 5. author's purpose when an author wants the reader to HAVE FUN?
  5. 6. words that mimic the sounds that they make
  6. 7. author is writing to share information and facts about a particular subject?
  7. 11. Contrast: showing similarities and differences between two things
  8. 12. in context: when the definition of a word is found in the sentences before or after the unfamiliar word: words often mean slightly different things depending on their context. Context is the set of facts and circumstances that surround a word or phrase in a text.
  9. 14. how the AUTHOR feels about the subject
  10. 15. what the author wants you to learn from the story. There are three rules: 1- complete sentence 2- Universal 3- Moral/message
  11. 16. comparison using like or as
  12. 17. giving human characteristics to nonhuman things
  13. 23. Purpose: the author’s intent
  14. 27. Structure: how the author organizes the ideas in a text
  15. 29. & Effect: When one thing causes another to happen