Across
- 2. stories and plays about real people and events and may be based on biographies, autobiographies, and diaries
- 4. the series of events in a story
- 8. when a reader makes a logical guess based on new clues and what you already know
- 12. the author's reason for writing; can be to inform, entertain, or persuade
- 13. the writer's message about life within the story
- 14. a form of nonfiction whose purpose is to express the writer's thoughts and feelings about one subject
- 15. when you briefly restate in your own words the main ideas and important details of something you've read
Down
- 1. events put in the order in which they happened
- 3. a nonfiction film or television production that tells about important people, historic places, or major events
- 5. a form of autobiographical writing in which the writer records thoughts, experiences, or feelings
- 6. short account of events
- 7. the standpoint from which the story is told; can be first-person, second-person, or third-person
- 9. a story of a person's life told by someone else and written from third-person point of view
- 10. a person's life told by that person and is written in first-person point of view
- 11. a story about only a certain part of a person's life told by that person and is written in first-person point of view