Across
- 4. the pattern of beats or a series of stressed and unstressed
- 5. a small object such as a book, weapon etc, used by actors in a play or film
- 7. when a poem is written without a pattern of rhyme, meter, or line length.
- 9. a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language
- 10. words that create an image in the reader’s mind using the five senses
- 11. a logical guess
- 12. an affix that is added to the end of the word to change its meaning or to form a different word.
- 13. a list of chapters or divisions in a book, usually located in the front
- 14. not based on true events
- 15. the perspective from which the story is told
- 17. in general, a literary work in which the central character meets an unhappy or disastrous end
- 18. a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance
- 23. a nonfiction genre based on a person’s life
- 24. a nonfiction piece that is written in a narrative format
- 27. a person or anything presented as a person, in a literary work
- 28. scenery and staging of a dramatic production
- 29. the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line
- 30. a figure of speech in which two things are compared, usually by saying one thing is another (Example‐ “Kate is a chicken” or “The snow is a white blanket” )
- 31. A section or division of a poem; specifically, a grouping of lines
- 32. a conversation between two characters
- 33. they act as transition words by leading the reader to think in the direction you want them to go. They usually assist the reader in locating the main idea.
- 34. develops one idea.
- 37. a story acted out, usually on a stage by actors and actresses who take the parts of specific characters (Dramatic Literature)
- 39. a nonfiction selection based on a person’s life that is written by the person
- 40. the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- 41. provides visual documentation of the topic
- 43. various ways of manipulating and placing text to draw attention to or emphasize certain points or ideas in narrative (e.g. bolding or boxing questions, italicizing key vocabulary, listing, bulleting, numbering).
- 45. the way in which a word or name is pronounced
- 46. an alphabetical list of terms or words found in or relating to a specific subject, text, or dialect, with explanations; a brief dictionary.
- 47. the narrator is also a character in his or her story and describes the action that happens to himself
- 48. when two words sound the same at the end
- 49. phrases which people use in everyday language which do not make sense literally, but we understand what they mean .
- 51. a division with no change of locale or abrupt shift of time
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- 1. the group of actors in a play, film, or television show
- 2. a figure of speech that uses ‘like’, ‘as’, or ‘as if’ to compare two essentially different objects, actions, or attributes (Her fingers were as cold as ice. Andy ran like a cheetah.)
- 3. a literary work which is funny or amusing and ends well, is written to have a good ending and to make people laugh
- 6. A struggle between a character and an outside force; or a struggle undergone by a character internally.
- 7. the special language authors use to create pictures in the reader’s mind
- 8. the author of the drama or play
- 10. The beginning, middle, and end; logical order
- 15. a figure of speech in which human characteristics are attributed to animals, plants, inanimate objects, natural forces or abstract ideas (Example‐ The moon followed me. )
- 16. an alphabetical list of names, subjects, etc., with references to the places where they occur, typically found at the end of a book.
- 19. A poem, such as a sonnet or an ode that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. A lyric poem may resemble a song in form or style.
- 20. the message or central idea of a drama (moral)
- 21. the narrator is describing the action that happened to someone else -- not the narrator himself
- 22. a playwright's descriptive or interpertive comments that provide the readers (and actors) with information about the dialogue, setting, and action of a play
- 25. expository text, the purpose of the author is to inform, explain, describe, or define his or her subject to the reader
- 26. Your prior knowledge, background knowledge
- 28. to use a few words to give the most important information or the main points of something.
- 31. the act, process, or method of forming or dividing words
- 35. the end of the line of a poem, and the beginning of a new line
- 36. a word that imitates the sound it represents.
- 38. a long, uninterrupted speech (in a narrative or drama) that is spoken in the presence of the characters
- 42. an additional element placed at the beginning or end of a root, stem, or word, or in the body of a word, to modify its meaning
- 44. a title or brief explanation added to an article, illustration, cartoon, or poster (provides the main idea)
- 45. an affix placed before a word, base, or another prefix to modify a term's meaning (creates a new word)
- 50. one of the main divisions of a play or opera