Across
- 3. What is a saying that sets forth a general truth and has gained credibility through use over time?
- 4. What does it mean to apply a procedure to an unfamiliar task?
- 7. IRONY What involves a situation in a play or story in which the author and the audience or reader have information that is unknown to the characters or actors?
- 8. What is an affix attached before a root word?
- 9. What is a subtle difference in a shade of meaning, expression, or sound?
- 13. What is an assertion or proposition that forms the basis for a work or theory?
- 15. What is the stylistic choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing?
- 18. What is the general or literal meaning of a word?
- 20. What does it mean to condense a text to its general theme(s) and/or major points?
- 21. What is the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own?
- 22. What is the subdivision of acts in a play in which there is no change of place or in the continuity of time?
- 24. What is a position from which something is considered or evaluated?
- 26. STRUCTURE What is a form of language construction in which word forms, sentences, clauses, or paragraphs are constructed in the same way?
- 27. What does it mean to translate from the original text into one's own words?
- 31. OF SPEECH What are spoken and written language that departs from literal meaning in both pattern and usage?
- 35. What is a type of oral or written communication that develops or debates a topic in a logical or persuasive way?
- 38. DETAILS What are points of information in a text that strongly support the meaning or tell the story?
- 40. FEATURES What are print features, as well as graphic, informational, and organizational aids?
- 42. What is an affix attached to the end of a base, root, or stem that changes the grammatical function of the word?
- 43. What is a restatement of a text or passage in another form or other words, often to clarify meaning?
- 45. What is a deliberate and humorous play on words that are the same or similar in sound but different in meaning?
- 46. What is intended or suggested rather than directly stated?
- 50. What is when an inanimate object or an abstract concept is spoken of as though it were endowed with life or with human attributes or feelings?
- 52. What is a word having a similar meaning to another word?
- 53. What is a lyric poem consisting of a single stanza of 14 lines of iambic pentameter?
- 55. What is the author's attitude reflected in the style of the written word?
- 56. What does it mean to convey the appearance, nature, and/or attributes of elements or ideas in literary or informational text using vivid language and textual evidence?
- 58. What is a product that serves as an excellent illustration of a point, principle, or model?
- 60. Who is the intended target group of a message?
- 61. What is literature that can be in metrical form and expresses an idea or concept, often using figurative language?
- 64. What is a group of words containing both a subject and a predicate?
- 66. PERSON Who is a narrator who is outside the story proper and refers to all of the characters as he, she, or they?
- 67. What abbreviation is used for "for example" or "such as"?
- 69. What does it mean to understand and explain the meaning of?
- 71. What is a narrative of ancient origin that a particular cultural group believes to be a true explanation of why the world is as it is?
- 72. What is the repetition of speech sounds at the beginning of nearby words?
- 74. What is a grouping of lines of verse in a poem often set off by a space in the printed text?
- 76. What is the effective use of language in prose, verse, or oration to communicate with, inform, or persuade an audience?
- 77. What is a literary genre designed for performance in the theater in which actors take on the roles of characters, perform the indicated actions, and utter the written dialogue?
- 79. What is the repetition of the last stressed vowel and of all the speech sounds following that vowel?
- 80. What are relationships created between new and familiar words, concepts, and ideas?
- 81. STYLE What is a style of speaking and writing used to inform an audience in impersonal terms?
- 82. What is the part of writing and preparing written material concerned chiefly with reconsidering and reworking text relative to task, purpose, and audience?
- 84. What may be suggested by or associated with the meaning of a word?
- 86. What is the emotion(s) expressed by an author or artist in the rhetoric, structure, and/or perspective of his or her work?
- 87. What are the events and actions of a narrative work?
- 90. What are compositions written in meter?
- 92. LANGUAGE What are words or expressions with meaning other than the literal interpretation?
- 94. What does it mean to make judgments about the value of ideas, purposes, or claims of a text based on criteria and standards?
- 95. What is the study of the way sequences of words are ordered into phrases, clauses, and sentences?
- 99. What abbreviation is used for "that is"?
- 100. What does it mean to make evident or prove?
- 101. What are arguable statements intended to dispute other claims?
- 102. What is the act of a character in a drama, alone on stage, uttering his thoughts aloud?
- 103. What is the technique of disrupting the order of events in a story by shifting to an earlier time?
Down
- 1. What is a short narrative that contains a moral or principle of human behavior?
- 2. What is the use of ridicule or sarcasm, often in humorous or witty ways, to expose immorality or foolishness?
- 5. What are words, phrases, or sentences that establish connections between ideas when writing or speaking?
- 6. What is a personal view, attitude, or appraisal?
- 7. What does it mean to analyze spoken words or graphic symbols/units of a familiar language to discover their intended meaning?
- 8. What does it mean to prepare written material for presentation to an audience?
- 10. What indicates differences?
- 11. PERSON Who is a narrator who is a participant in the story and uses the pronouns I and me?
- 12. What does it mean to identify elements and fit them into an existing structure?
- 14. What is a unit of rhythm?
- 16. What does it mean to detect similarities or correspondences between two or more ideas, objects, concepts, and other elements from a text?
- 17. STATEMENT What is the basic argument advanced by a speaker or writer who then attempts to prove it throughout the remainder of the piece of writing?
- 19. What is the goal a reader or writer seeks to attain?
- 20. What is the process of arranging and combining pieces, parts, and elements into a pattern or structure not clearly there before?
- 23. What does it mean to make the meaning more transparent and easy to understand?
- 25. What is a type or class of literature?
- 28. IRONY What is represented by a mismatch between expectation and reality?
- 29. What is a conclusion logically drawn from presented information?
- 30. PURPOSE What is the motive or reason for which an author writes, such as to entertain, inform, or persuade?
- 32. SOURCE What is an original text used largely for informational purposes?
- 33. What does it mean to make clear by describing in more detail or giving relevant facts or ideas?
- 34. OF EVENTS What is the structure of the action of a story in its chronological order?
- 36. What is the basic part of a word that carries the main component of meaning and cannot be further broken down without loss of identity?
- 37. WRITING What is a story involving events, characters, and what the characters say and do?
- 39. What is directly stated?
- 41. What are facts, figures, details, quotations, or other sources of data and information that provide support for claims or analysis of the text?
- 42. SOURCES What are texts used largely for informational purposes that reference, analyze, interpret, or critique one or more primary sources?
- 44. What is a comparison between two distinctly different things indicated by the word "like" or "as"?
- 47. What does it mean to take words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or allegory?
- 48. What does it mean to arrange ideas and details in a clear and coherent way to create an effective message?
- 49. What is an abstract concept broad enough to cover the entire scope of a literary work?
- 51. WRITING What type of writing represents knowledge originating from instruction, study, or research?
- 53. PERSON Who is a narrator who addresses a story to someone he or she calls "you"?
- 54. What does it mean to describe or outline with precision?
- 57. What is a type of comparison in which a word or expression's literal usage and meaning is applied to a distinctly different thing?
- 59. IDEA What is the chief topic of a passage expressed or implied in a word or phrase?
- 62. What is the correction of mechanical features of writing to prepare materials for publication?
- 63. What is a recognizable, varying pattern in the beat of the accents in a stream of speech sounds?
- 65. What is written or spoken language that is not verse?
- 68. What is a short, concise statement of widely accepted truth about everyday life?
- 70. What is a short narrative in prose of unknown authorship, which has been a part of an oral tradition over generations?
- 71. What is a principle or value of human behavior?
- 73. Who are the persons represented in a dramatic or narrative work?
- 75. What is a passing reference in a text to a literary or historical person, place, event, or other literary work?
- 77. What is the verbal interaction between two or more characters in a dramatic or narrative work?
- 78. What is a word having the opposite meaning of another word?
- 83. What is the general place, historical time, and social circumstances in which action occurs in a story or play?
- 84. What are the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage, usually influencing the meaning or effect?
- 85. What is text or dialogue in which there is a root sense of hiding what is actually the case in order to achieve special rhetorical or artistic effect?
- 88. What is a word part that is "fixed to" either the beginnings or endings of words?
- 89. Who is the person in a fictional narrative who relates the account or story?
- 91. What is a lack of certainty on the part of a concerned reader about what is going to happen to characters with whom the reader has established a bond?
- 93. What is an arguable statement?
- 96. What are phrases or expressions that have meanings different from the literal?
- 97. IRONY What is a statement in which the meaning the speaker implies differs sharply from what is directly said?
- 98. OF VIEW What is the narrative point of view in literary texts?