Unit 4 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 5. the place and time in which a story occurs
  2. 6. purpose a writer’s reason for writing: inform, persuade, entertain, describe
  3. 7. as a result
  4. 8. conflict gets most intense; readers learn how the conflict will be resolved
  5. 13. action minor conflicts and misunderstandings are cleared up; the tension eases
  6. 14. limited narrator is a voice outside the story and not a character; reader sees through one character’s eyes; uses 3rd person pronouns (he, she, his, her) to refer to all characters
  7. 16. statement that tells how someone or something looks, sounds, etc.
  8. 18. conflict a dispute between a character and an outside force, such as another character, nature, society, or technology
  9. 20. the sequence of events in a story
  10. 23. new
  11. 24. POV narrator is a character in the story; reader sees through the narrator’s eyes; uses 1st person pronouns (I, me, my, mine)
  12. 25. a message or insight about life that the story expresses
Down
  1. 1. reading an oral presentation of a literary work, delivered with expression and gestures that bring the story to life
  2. 2. action conflict begins and develops- suspense builds
  3. 3. conflict a problem (decisions/feelings) a character feels within themselves
  4. 4. change
  5. 7. the people, animals, or creatures in a story who take part in the action and move the plot forward
  6. 9. fiction a type of fiction in which real or imagined elements of science or advanced technology play a key role
  7. 10. a story that has been passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation
  8. 11. omniscient narrator is an all-knowing observer and not a character; reader sees through the eyes of multiple characters’ eyes; uses 3rd person pronouns to refer to all characters
  9. 12. of view the perspective from which the story is told
  10. 15. end of the story, during which any further loose ends are addressed
  11. 17. the conversation between and among characters
  12. 19. characters and situations are introduced
  13. 21. scene from the past breaks the time sequence; a memory, dream, or an actual shift in time
  14. 22. directions the playwright’s directions in a script