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Vocabulary Review Crossword

Emma Delatorre #13
Across
The clues in a story that suggest the writer's (or narrator's) own attitude toward elements of his or her story.
An exaggerated statement used to make a strong effect.
The use of selected details to describe one thing in terms of another. This helps suggest additional meanings and feelings.
The characteristic ways that an individual author uses language- including word choice, length and complexity of sentences, patterns of sound, and use of imagery and symbols.
Background material about the characters, setting, and dramatic situation with which the author introduces the essentials of the story to the reader.
The perspective from which a story is told. Point of view is said to be omniscient if the author is outside the story and presents the thought of all the characters involved. Point of view is called limited when the view point of one character who can see only a part of the whole story.
The overall feeling- light and happy or dark and brooding, for example-created by an author's choice of words.
The methods a writer uses to communicate information about characters to readers. When the author tells the reader directly about a character, its called direct characterization. When the author shows the character in action and lets readers draw their own conclusions, it is called indirect characterization.
A writing technique that gives readers clues about events that will happen later in the story.
An image, object, character, or action that stands for an idea (or ideas) beyond its literal meaning.
The conclusion of the story. The resolution includes the story's action after the climax until the end of the story.
Techniques used by the author to keep readers interested in the story and wondering what will happen next.
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The story's main ideas - the "message" that the author intends to communicate by telling the story. Themes are often universal truths that are suggested by the specifics of the story.
The part of the story, including exposition, in which the tension rises. Rising action builds to its highest point of tension at the story's climax.
The part of the story, following the climax and leading to the resolution, in which there is sharp decline in dramatic tension.
The author's choice of words, the vocabulary level of the story.
The moment when the action comes to its highest point of dramatic conflict. Most often, the climax occurs before the actual ending of the story.
The central character of the story.
The central source of tension and drama in the story. Conflict is sometimes referred to as the story problem.
The person, idea, or force that causes conflict in a story.
A particular tone created when the speaker intends a meaning that is opposite to the words he or she says.