PSSA Key Vocabulary Set #2

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Across
  1. 4. a story originating in the oral tradition (passing down word of mouth). Includes legends, ghost stores, fairy tales and fables)
  2. 7. a word that is opposite of another word
  3. 9. one or more letters attached to the beginning or end of a word or base
  4. 10. a lyric poem with 14 lines that rhymes
  5. 12. word combinations that have different meanings than the actual meaning of the words ("raining cats and dogs" and "hit the hay")
  6. 14. words that have several meanings depending upon how they are used in a sentence
  7. 18. the comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as"
  8. 20. the structure of a story or the sequence in which the author arranges events in the story
  9. 22. an exaggeration or overstatement
  10. 24. groups of lines in a poem
  11. 25. information or details from the text that supports a reader's ideas, predictions and/or opinions
  12. 26. a work intended to be performed by actors on a stage, radio or television
  13. 27. a category used to classify literary words
Down
  1. 1. a reader tells in his own words a story or article that has just been read
  2. 2. language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect of feeling (simile, metaphor, personification)
  3. 3. an object or idea given human qualities or human form
  4. 5. a brief story that illustrates human character traits through animal characters and animated objects and tells a life lesson
  5. 6. a text with fictional characters based on actual historical settings, events or people
  6. 8. an adjective that describes a character or expresses a specific quality about the character (selfish, humorous)
  7. 9. the repetition of beginning consonant sounds in neighboring words
  8. 11. a comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as" (The ant scurried as fast as a cheetah)
  9. 13. a dramatic speech, revealing inner thoughts and feelings, spoken aloud by a character while alone on the stage
  10. 15. to capture all of the most important parts of the original text but express them in a much shorter space and in the reader's own words
  11. 16. a type of genre in which events occur outside the ordinary laws of the universe and often contain magic, journeys and quests
  12. 17. two or more words with similar meanings (sorrow, sadness)
  13. 19. a story that tries to explain the origin of the world and usually contains gods and supernatural beings
  14. 21. the repetition of identical or similar sounds in a poem or literary work
  15. 23. to examine and to judge carefully