STAAR Academic Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. - the point in a narrative when the conflict hits the highest point
  2. 5. the attitude of a writer toward a subject
  3. 6. - an account of a person's life, written by that person
  4. 7. - the central or main character
  5. 8. - the stressed or unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse
  6. 10. a statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner
  7. 12. - the sequence of events in a story
  8. 13. a character or a group of characters which stand in opposition to the protagonist
  9. 14. - a traditional story that describes rites, practices, or natural phenomenon
  10. 15. a figure of speech that uses exaggerated phrases as a way to make an emphasis
Down
  1. 1. two or more characters engaged in conversation with each other
  2. 3. - the point when the dramatic complication is worked out
  3. 4. a literary element that evokes certain feelings in readers through words and descriptions
  4. 6. two more more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start with different consonant sounds
  5. 9. a literary device used to introduce background information about events, settings, characters, etc
  6. 11. the use of words to create mental images