Across
- 6. the language that is spoken in the UK, the US, and in many other countries.
- 7. Okonkwo’s father in the story “Things Fall Apart”
- 8. the opposition of persons or forces that gives rise to the dramatic action in a drama or fiction
- 9. an orphan in the city of mon. He took every job he could just to live
- 10. the repetition of identical or similar vowel sound found within or at the end of words and phrases.
- 13. the point of highest dramatic tension or a major turning point in the action
- 14. a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g., gently, quiet, then, there).
- 15. the main character in the book “Things Fall Apart”
- 18. a determiner like many, few, little, several, which is used in a noun phrase to show how much or how many we are talking about.
- 19. visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work
- 20. he rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
- 22. the prince of Ayodya. He is an avatara of Vishnu, the Blue God and the sustainer of worlds.and the main character of the book Ramayana
- 24. Okonkwo’s close friend, whose daughter’s wedding provides cause for festivity early in the novel “Things Fall Apart”
- 25. it attributes human characteristics to something nonhuman.
- 27. A boy given to Okonkwo by a neighboring village.
- 29. The only child of Okonkwo’s second wife, Ekwefi. As the only one of Ekwefi’s ten children to survive past infancy, in the story “Things Fall Apart”
- 30. The third and youngest wife of King Dasaratha, and mother of Bharata. She is famed for her beauty in the story of “Ramayana”
- 35. a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause, as in “the man on the platform,” “she arrived after dinner,” “what did you do it for?”.
- 36. a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole
- 39. the body of words used in a particular language.
- 40. the usually humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings or the meaning of another word similar in sound
- 41. A noun, verb, adjective, preposition, etc is one that is made of two or more parts.
- 42. like -ology, -able or -ese, which can be added to the end of a word to give an additional or different meaning.
- 43. a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.
- 46. a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated
- 47. a set of words that is complete in itself, typically containing a subject and predicate, conveying a statement, question, exclamation, or command, and consisting of a main clause and sometimes one or more subordinate clauses.
- 48. Okonkwo’s eldest son in the book “Things Fall Apart”
- 49. the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place.
- 51. a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind
- 52. a grammatical form used to refer to more than one person or thing.
- 53. the part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject (e.g., went home in John went home).
- 54. he cannot be killed by any God, demon, or other divine being. His arrogance combined, with great intelligence and power, has led him to rule over much of the earth, spreading terrible evil
Down
- 1. letters a, e, i, o, u and their combinations, and their usual sounds
- 2. the time or a period of time following the moment of speaking or writing; time regarded as still to come
- 3. She marries Rama, and loves him so much that she follows him into exile.
- 4. An old maid of Kaikeyi's. She is a wicked woman, and gives Kaikeyi the idea to ask Dasaratha to exile Rama and crown Bharata king instead in the story “Ramayana”
- 5. a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
- 9. A word, phrase, or clause that describes or qualifies the meaning of a word. Modifiers include adjectives, adverbs, adverbs, prepositional phrases, participial phrases, some infinitive phrases, and adjective and adverb clauses.
- 11. the letters b, c, d, f, g and their usual sounds
- 12. a small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause
- 13. a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause (e.g. and, but, if)
- 16. the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.
- 17. the whole system and structure of a language or of languages in general, usually taken as consisting of syntax and morphology (including inflections) and sometimes also phonology and semantics.
- 21. a musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength.
- 23. the use of the same beginning consonant sound in a line or verse.
- 26. One of the most known authors in history, known for his works such as “Romeo and Juliet”, “Hamlet”, and etc.
- 28. Author of the book “Things Fall Apart”
- 31. the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it
- 32. a punctuation mark ( ’ ) used to indicate either possession
- 33. a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it, this).
- 34. a word opposite to the other
- 37. a unit of grammatical organization next below the sentence in rank and in traditional grammar said to consist of a subject and predicate.
- 38. Okonkwo’s second wife, once the village beauty.
- 42. a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language, for example shut is a synonym of close.
- 44. a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things (common noun), or to name a particular one of these (proper noun).
- 45. a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.
- 49. a person or thing that is being discussed, described, or dealt with.
- 50. A verb form ending in -ing and used as a noun.
- 53. the plan or main story
- 55. 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.