Across
- 6. the point in the story when the conflict is decided one way or another (the most intense, emotional, or suspenseful part of the story
- 7. a struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces or emotions
- 8. prefixes and suffixes can be added to this to form new words
- 11. information or details from the text that supports the reader's ideas, predictions and/or opinions
- 14. to examine or judge carefully
- 15. a reader retells in his own words a story or article that has just been read
- 16. the author's intent to inform or teach someone about something, to entertain, or to persuade or convince their audience to do or not to do something
- 18. a story originating in the oral tradition (passed down word of mouth). Includes ghost stories, legends, fairy tales and fables.
- 20. the point of view told when the story is from the "I" perspective; story is limited to the narrator's perspective
- 22. to capture all the most important parts of the original parts of the original text but express them in a much shorter space
- 24. the person, animal or thing telling the story or giving an account of something
- 28. a drawing that shows the appearance, structure or workings of something
Down
- 1. a work intended to be performed by actors on stage, radio or television
- 2. the time or place a story unfolds
- 3. words or phrases from the text that identify the meaning of unfamiliar words
- 4. the point of view when the story is told from the perspective of someone outside the story
- 5. a category used to classify literary works
- 6. a person, animal or object portrayed in a literary work
- 9. the main lesson of a passage
- 10. conversation between or among characters
- 12. the perspective from which the events of a story are told (first person, third person)
- 13. a lyric poem with 14 lines that rhymes
- 17. the structure of a story or the sequence in which the author arranges events in the story
- 18. a brief story that illustrates human character traits through animal characters or animated objects and tells a life lesson
- 19. the portion of a story following the climax, in which the conflict is resolved
- 21. a dramatic speech, revealing inner thoughts and feelings, spoken aloud by a character while alone on the stage
- 23. a type of genre in which events occur outside the ordinary laws of the universe and often contain magic, journeys and quests
- 25. one or more letters attached to the beginning or end of a word or base
- 26. an adjective that describes a character and expresses a specific quality about the character (selfish, humorous)
- 27. word combinations that have different meanings than the actual meanings of the words ("raining cats and dogs" and "hit the hay")