English Terms

2. To reword what has been read, heard or seen in one's own words.
4. The story element that is the time, place, atmosphere, and duration of a story.
6. The struggle between opposing forces that brings about the action within a story or drama.
7. Example:Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
10. A genre of literature written in lines, meter and verse; not prose.
11. The motive or reason an author writes.
14. A regular pattern of rhyming words at the end of lines in a poem.
15. A meaningful word to which the prefixes or suffixes are added.
16. Basic part of the word that carries the meaning.
18. An affix attached at the end of a base word or root word that changes the meaning or it's part of speech.
19. The central thought; the main topic of a passage expressed or implied in a word or phrase.
21. Book of maps.

1. Example:He was a tornado.
2. The careful sequencing of events in a story generally built around a conflict.
3. A judgement based on the reader's knowledge as well as the information supplied by the text.
5. The method an author uses to create the appearance and personality of a character in a piece of fiction.
8. Examples:buzz, pop, crack, ding.
9. Example:I waited in line for a million years.
10. An affix attached at the beginning of a base word or root word that changes the meaning.
12. The author's central message that makes a general statement about human beings or about life.
13. To give main points or facts in a condensed form.
17. Used to look up facts and statistics.
20. Words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses.