Across
- 4. An exaggeration
- 7. A poem or other group of words set to music
- 8. Written language in its ordinary form without poetic rhythm
- 11. The main means of mass communication including tv, internet, radio
- 12. A word that is based on a verb and used as an adjective
- 13. To understand or explain the meaning of information
- 14. Hardworking
- 15. A very informal type of language more common in speech than writing
- 16. A punctuation mark that indicates either possession or contraction
- 19. The action of interpreting printed words
- 20. A word that depicts action or being
- 21. The formation of a word from the association of the sound it makes
- 23. A word with the opposite meaning
- 24. A visual representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features such as mountains
- 27. A resource for finding synonyms and antonyms
- 28. The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles
- 29. A word used to depict a person, place or thing
- 30. A strong, regular, repeated pattern of sound, as in music
Down
- 1. A subject of a talk or a piece of writing
- 2. A book that sells in very large numbers
- 3. A person who writes poems
- 5. A punctuation mark indicating a pause between two parts of a sentence
- 6. Each of a set of words which sound the same but have different spellings and meanings
- 8. The marks in a sentence, such as period and comma, which separate elements of a sentence and clarify their meaning
- 9. Written works that are of high quality and important
- 10. A word that modifies or describes a noun
- 15. A word with the same meaning
- 17. A punctuation mark used at the end of a sentence
- 18. Sympathetic concern for the wellbeing of others
- 22. To look at something with pleasure or regard highly
- 25. The quality of being clear
- 26. The place where the action happens in a story
- 31. To regard with great respect