Mr. Picca's ELA Terms! Hint: Some clues may be more than one word. If there are, include a space.

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Across
  1. 2. The author's attitude toward the subject, audience, or characters, conveyed through word choice and style.
  2. 3. Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically found in poetry.
  3. 6. Placing two elements side by side to highlight contrast or create meaning.
  4. 11. The beginning of a story that introduces background information, characters, and setting.
  5. 14. The emotional atmosphere of a piece; how the reader feels while reading.
  6. 15. A comparison between two things to show their similarities, often used to explain something unfamiliar.
  7. 16. A comparison using “like” or “as.”
  8. 17. The central idea or message in a literary work.
  9. 18. The sequence of events in a story, typically including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
  10. 21. Two consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme and form a unit.
  11. 24. Giving human traits to non-human things.
  12. 25. is when the author gives hints of what is to come later in the story.
  13. 27. An appeal to credibility or character.
  14. 28. A struggle between opposing forces, driving the plot; can be internal or external.
  15. 30. he use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning
  16. 31. A grouped set of lines in a poem, often separated by a space.
Down
  1. 1. This "alliterative" superhero team is a family with "fantastic" powers.
  2. 4. is the sense of anticipation or worry that the author makes the reader feel.
  3. 5. The perspective from which a story is told.
  4. 7. The name of the hallway Mr. Picca's class is on.
  5. 8. Ordinary written or spoken language without metrical structure.
  6. 9. A stanza or poem of four lines, often with a specific rhyme scheme.
  7. 10. The process by which an author reveals a character’s personality, traits, and development.
  8. 12. Descriptive language that appeals to the senses and creates vivid mental pictures.
  9. 13. An appeal to logic and reason.
  10. 14. A figure of speech that compares two unlike things directly, saying one is the other.
  11. 19. is the repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words that are close together. It’s often used in poetry, speeches, and storytelling to create rhythm, mood, or emphasis.
  12. 20. The author’s choice of words, which affects tone, mood, and style.
  13. 22. refers to a sense of heightened involvement, uncertainty, and interest an audience experiences as the climax of the action approaches.
  14. 23. An appeal to emotion.
  15. 26. The time and place in which a story occurs, including the environment and context.
  16. 29. A figure of speech combining contradictory terms.