Literacy @ DCA

1. Term given to words used to modify verbs. They are used to express when, where, how, for what reason, or to what degree an action is performed.
2. What every teacher is a teacher of
4. The repetition of the same initial letter in successive words
6. A figure of speech which asserts that one thing is something that it literally is not e.g. "All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree." (Albert Einstein)
8. A word that can be used to replace a noun such as he or she
10. A word used to connect words, phrases or clauses e.g. and, or
12. A figure of speech in which one thing is likened to another

1. A word that has the opposite meaning of another
3. Placed before a noun to show that noun's relationship to something else in the sentence e.g on, in, at
5. Term given to words used for a person, place or thing
7. An abbreviation spoken as a word
9. Describing words, used before or after a noun to modify it
11. Doing words; words which tell us what action is being performed