Terms in 8th grade ELA

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Across
  1. 2. The emotion(s) expressed by an author
  2. 3. the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex
  3. 8. everything that takes place immediately after the climax
  4. 9. The author's attitude
  5. 12. A type of comparison in which a word or expression's literal usage and meaning is applied to a distinctly different thing
  6. 14. make (an idea, situation, or problem) clear to someone by describing it in more detail or revealing relevant facts or ideas.
  7. 15. the part where the conflict begins to build and the stakes start to get higher
Down
  1. 1. a particular attitude or way of considering a matter.
  2. 4. a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words
  3. 5. the _____ of the book was Sci-fi
  4. 6. The events and actions of a narrative work
  5. 7. the central, or most important, idea in a paragraph or passage
  6. 10. a firm decision to do or not to do something
  7. 11. A comparison between two distinctly different things indicated by the word "like" or "as"
  8. 13. The general place, historical time, and social circumstances in which action occurs in a story or play