Across
- 1. the action or skill of reading written or printed matter silently or aloud.
- 3. the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
- 5. A sentence using 'like or as'
- 8. a person in a novel, play, or movie.
- 10. a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
- 12. the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
- 14. conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.
- 15. a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse
Down
- 2. as a pronoun that ends in “self” or “selves” and places emphasis on its antecedent.
- 4. the narrator's position in relation to a story being told.
- 6. giving human characteristics to a non-living thing.
- 7. denoting a pronoun that refers back to the subject of the clause in which it is used, e.g. myself, themselves.
- 9. exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
- 11. a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words
- 13. a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.