Across
- 4. exaggeration for effect, not meant to be taken literally Ex: I'm so hungry, i could eat a horse.
- 7. author’s attitude towards the writing (the characters, the situation) and the readers. Ex: serious, joyful, formal, sad
- 11. 2 or more words sharing the same beginning consonant sound-no vowels Ex:peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
- 12. hint or clue about what may happen later in the plot Ex:a crow is often an omen of death
- 13. irony when the audience/reader knows something the characters don’t Ex: in the titanic before the iceberg hit rose said “ It’s so beautiful i could just die”
- 14. the form of spoken language specific to a particular region, social group, etc. Ex: standard dialect like “howdy”
- 16. time and place in story Ex:morning in Colorado Springs
- 18. comparison using "like" or "as" Ex:Emily is as slow as a sloth
- 19. the use of overstatement for comic effect Ex: I’m in so much trouble, my dad is going to kill me
- 20. comparison not using "like" or "as" Ex:life is like a highway
- 21. conversation between 2 or more characters Ex: Emily said “Hey how are you today?” Layla responded with “ I'm doing great, how about you?”
- 22. a sound written as a word Ex:clap, zap
Down
- 1. told by a narrator not a character in the story Ex:Mike used the money in his jeans to buy soda
- 2. a contrast between what is said and what is actually meant Ex: “just what i needed” she said as she spilt coffee on her shirt on her way to an important meeting.
- 3. opponent of the protagonist Ex:the wolf in three little pigs
- 5. the main character in a story; usually, but not always, the hero or good guy Ex:Tony Stark in Iron Man
- 6. a situation that is the opposite of what we expect or of what seems appropriate Ex: a fire station on fire
- 8. giving human qualities to something not human Ex:the sun smiled down on us
- 9. a description of something as less than it is (the opposite of exaggeration) Ex: i did okay on that test.
- 10. a taunting remark, generally ironic(verbal irony) Ex:"they're really on top of things" to describe a group of people who are very disorganized
- 15. a character in the story is narrating in the story-uses first person pronouns such as I,me,my Ex:journals or diaries
- 17. interruption in the present action of a plot to show events that happened at an earlier time Ex: when she put on her wedding dress, she has a flashback of her fiance promising to marry her.
- 23. general atmosphere created by the author's word. It is the feeling the reader gets from reading those words Ex: funny, sad, creepy