Across
- 2. What you use to support your argument with facts or quotes from reliable sources
- 7. The initial conflict of your story
- 10. The main point of your persuasive essay
- 13. A literary device used to grab the reader's attention with the first line of your essay or story
- 14. The final sentence of your introductory paragraph; The main idea of your argumentative essay
- 15. Uses the five senses (sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch) to describe something
- 17. A comparison that does not use like or as (The boys were insects buzzing around the pretty girl.)
- 19. Background information in a narrative essay or story
- 20. What the other side would say
- 24. The turning point of your story
- 26. Shows what the character is like through actions and words; Implicit description; uses STEAL
- 27. The general category of what your story is about
- 29. Appeal based on emotions and values
- 30. Appeal based on facts and reasoning
Down
- 1. What happens right after the climax
- 3. The people in your story
- 4. Tells what the character is like though explicit description
- 5. A conversation between two or more characters
- 6. A form of figurative language that gives human characteristics to a non-human entity (The wind whispered my name; The ocean cried out to me.)
- 8. An extreme exaggeration for poetic or comedic effect (This bag weighs a ton!)
- 9. Has a yes or no answer
- 11. How you wrap up your story or essay
- 12. Asks the interviewee to expand upon a given scenario
- 16. The art of effective and persuasive speaking and writing
- 18. Your response to the counterargument
- 21. Requires thought or research to answer
- 22. What the author believes to be true about the topic
- 23. Appeal based on reputation and credibility
- 25. An argument that is not logically sound; contains a logical fallacy
- 28. An argument that is logically sound
- 31. A comparison that uses like or as (as bright as a lightbulb)