Skills

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. The word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence (plural) (5)
  2. 5. Literature in metrical form (6)
  3. 7. A message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events (5)
  4. 10. English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (11)
  5. 13. The act of creating written works (7)

Down

  1. 2. Pages bound together to read (5)
  2. 3. A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally (8)
  3. 4. A ___ work intended for performance by actors on a stage (5)
  4. 6. The word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition (plural) (5)
  5. 8. Forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage (8)
  6. 9. One of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas (9)
  7. 11. The word class that qualifies verbs or clauses (plural) (7)
  8. 12. The performance of a part or role in a drama (6)