Across
- 3. a grammatical form used to refer to more than one person or thing.
- 6. the language that is spoken in the UK, the US, and in many other countries.
- 7. 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”
- 9. 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
- 10. Okonkwo’s close friend, whose daughter’s wedding provides cause for festivity early in the novel “Things Fall Apart”
- 13. the body of words used in a particular language.
- 14. the part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject (e.g., went home in John went home).
- 16. 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.
- 17. a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause (e.g. and, but, if)
- 18. visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work
- 19. the plan or main story
- 21. he rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
- 22. 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).
- 23. it attributes human characteristics to something nonhuman.
- 28. the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.
- 32. a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.
- 36. letters a, e, i, o, u and their combinations, and their usual sounds
- 37. 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
- 39. a small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause
- 40. 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”
- 41. a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind
- 42. Okonkwo’s second wife, once the village beauty.
- 43. the letters b, c, d, f, g and their usual sounds
- 44. A verb form ending in -ing and used as a noun.
- 45. 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
- 47. A boy given to Okonkwo by a neighboring village.
- 49. a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.
- 52. Author of the book “Things Fall Apart”
- 53. the repetition of identical or similar vowel sound found within or at the end of words and phrases.
- 54. Okonkwo’s father in the story “Things Fall Apart”
- 55. A noun, verb, adjective, preposition, etc is one that is made of two or more parts.
- 56. 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.
- 58. 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.
- 59. a word opposite to the other
Down
- 1. the time or a period of time following the moment of speaking or writing; time regarded as still to come
- 2. like -ology, -able or -ese, which can be added to the end of a word to give an additional or different meaning.
- 4. the opposition of persons or forces that gives rise to the dramatic action in a drama or fiction
- 5. an orphan in the city of mon. He took every job he could just to live
- 8. 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
- 11. the use of the same beginning consonant sound in a line or verse.
- 12. 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?”.
- 15. a punctuation mark ( ’ ) used to indicate either possession
- 20. a musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength.
- 24. One of the most known authors in history, known for his works such as “Romeo and Juliet”, “Hamlet”, and etc.
- 25. 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.
- 26. The third and youngest wife of King Dasaratha, and mother of Bharata. She is famed for her beauty in the story of “Ramayana”
- 27. 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.
- 29. the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it
- 30. the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place.
- 31. She marries Rama, and loves him so much that she follows him into exile.
- 33. a unit of grammatical organization next below the sentence in rank and in traditional grammar said to consist of a subject and predicate.
- 34. a person or thing that is being discussed, described, or dealt with.
- 35. the point of highest dramatic tension or a major turning point in the action
- 38. 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).
- 46. Okonkwo’s eldest son in the book “Things Fall Apart”
- 48. a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
- 49. 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).
- 50. the main character in the book “Things Fall Apart”
- 51. a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole
- 57. 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.