Across
- 2. The central idea is the ________ idea of the passage, supported by all paragraphs
- 6. A fictional passage will tell a story or a ______________ about a moment in a character(S) life
- 11. A ______________ sentence will support the topic sentence in a paragraph or the central idea of the passage.
- 12. a conflict is a problem or a _____________ bewtween two characters or passages
- 13. An inference is an educated guess based on __________ and details from the passage.
- 15. Context clues are words in a ___________ or passage that can be used to help define and understand difficult words.
- 16. Dialogue is the words spoken by characters in a narrative; dialogue often reveals character ___________ of characters.
Down
- 1. A myth is a ________________ (ancient) story that aims to explain a natural or social phenomenon through the use of supernatural beings.
- 3. Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows ________ than a character(s) in the story.
- 4. The theme is the unifying(big) idea, message, or _________ (lesson) that is demomonstrated through the plot(action) and characters of a story; the theme is the message that gives deeper insight about life.
- 5. When showing how a theme _________, you must cite at least two lines from the beginning and end of a passage.
- 7. A nonfictional passage will give ________________ about something in history, science, or culture
- 8. The narrator is the person telling the story. The narrator can be a ________ person or a third person narrator.
- 9. There are three main purposes for an author: to inform (informative), to ____________ (argumentative) , and to entertain (narrative)
- 10. In an objective summary, the main facts and ___________ of a passage are summed up in a few sentences.
- 14. The phrase 'primary ________' means the same as the main or central idea.
- 17. In the cause and effect relationship, one or more things happen as a ___________ of something else.