Across
- 6. a phrase that is not intended to mean its literal meaning: it's raining cats and dogs
- 7. point of view from which a story is told (2 words)
- 10. when and where a story takes place
- 12. a sound word, for example, BOOM
- 15. a piece of writing that develops an author's claim with supporting reasons and evidence
- 17. how an author helps achieve or provide something in the text
- 18. the way the author organizes a piece of writing
- 19. a statement that an author is trying to argue as true
- 20. stated very clearly and in detail
- 21. a detail that is on topic
- 22. to examine a passage and break it down for the purpose of an explanation
Down
- 1. how an author elaborates a of the writing
- 2. a comparison of two unlike objects stating one is the other
- 3. a comparison of two unlike objects using "like" or "as" in the comparison
- 4. the moral or life lesson the author wants the reader to get from the text
- 5. an over exaggeration
- 8. a person's attitude and behavior that make up their personality (2 words)
- 9. a piece of writing that provides factual information
- 11. to provide evidence from a text that supports a statement
- 13. replying to a question in more than one paragraph, with each paragraph having several sentences (3 words)
- 14. giving an inanimate object humanlike characteristics
- 16. a short section of a longer piece of writing