Across
- 2. To back up, justify your answer, opinion, or claim (with evidence).
- 5. The set of circumstances or facts that surround an event or situation.
- 7. To state the main points in order.
- 11. To point out facts or details
- 12. The main events of the story.
- 13. A writer's attitude toward their subject.
- 14. Language that is not to be taken literally.
- 17. Information that is clear and leaves no room for interpretation.
- 18. To make clear or understandable to others.
- 20. The emotion the author is trying to make the reader feel.
- 23. The most important idea within a text.
- 25. The position or angle from which a story is told.
- 26. To decide or conclude through reasoning or observation.
Down
- 1. To make a judgment
- 3. To discover by going over the evidence step-by-step.
- 4. The differences between two things.
- 6. To give human qualities or characteristics to something that is not human.
- 7. A comparison using either the word 'like' or 'as'.
- 8. An extreme exaggeration.
- 9. To say that something is the case without providing evidence.
- 10. To point out individual features or characteristics.
- 11. To expand, elaborate, or add details.
- 15. To guess or figure out information from evidence.
- 16. To compare TWO unlike things by calling one thing something else; Comparison without using the words 'like' or 'as'.
- 19. The similarities between two things.
- 21. The message the author is trying to send.
- 22. To quote specifically
- 24. To break down something to determine meaning.