Across
- 5. informational books written by credible authors - explain how things work, tell facts about topics, show us how to do various things
- 9. poetry without a fixed pattern of meter and rhyme
- 12. stories passed down to us over the years by read people - different types including fables, myths, tall tales, fairy tales
- 14. The distinctive way a writer uses language, characterized by elements of diction, syntax, imagery, etc.
- 16. books that give a historically accurate portrayal of life during a particular time in history - strong sense of place and time
- 19. folktales that include key element of exaggeration
- 20. verbal expression of sensory experience; descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures; created by details that appeal to one or more of the 5 senses
- 21. repetition of the smae word or phrase at the beginnings of two or more clauses, lines, or sentences
- 22. A writer's central idea or main message about life
- 25. a way of looking at the world or a mental concept about things or events, one that judges relationships within or among things or events
- 28. books that involve a suspenseful event - often a crime of some type -
- 29. figure of speech that gives human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
- 30. writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject
- 32. anything (object, animal, event, person, or place) that represents itself but also stands for something else on a figurative level
- 33. the continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of a poem to the next without a pause between lines
Down
- 1. intelligent guess; act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true
- 2. type of fictions that contains elements such as characters or settings that could not exist in life as we know it today - characters such as dragons or animals with human characteristics - settings are magical or other world
- 3. imaginative language not meant to be taken literally; uses figures of speech
- 4. histories of a person's life or parts of his/her life
- 6. the writer's choice of words; a stylistic element that hleps convey voice and tone
- 7. brief stories that teach a lesson or moral - characters are usually animals, but they are given human characteristics
- 8. comparison between things not using the words like or as
- 10. repetition of initial consonant sounds
- 11. books that are set in present day - characters encounter modern day difficulties and dilemmas - can include mysteries, adventure...
- 13. stories that serve to explain a phenomenon of nature - many incorporate gods and goddesses within the story
- 15. usually have magical elements with characters that are fairies, giants elves... - magical deeds performed
- 17. Interpretive statement articulating the central message or message of a text
- 18. the associations and emotional overtones attached to a word beyond its literal definition or denotation. May be positive, negative, or neutral
- 23. biography written by a person about his/her own life
- 24. the exact literal meaning of word; dictionary definition
- 26. the way a writer or speaker uses words and tone to express ideas as well as his or her personas
- 27. comparison that uses the words like or as
- 31. the arrangement of words and the order of grammatical elements in a sentence; the way in which words are put together to make meaningful elements, such as phrases, clauses, and sentences