FCAT Reading

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened (4)
  2. 4. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred (plural) (5)
  3. 6. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (6)
  4. 7. A word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word (7)
  5. 8. The act of providing vague advance indications (13)
  6. 10. The context and environment in which something is set (7)
  7. 12. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn (5)
  8. 13. An arbitrary sign that has acquired a conventional significance (6)
  9. 15. A pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages (4)

Down

  1. 1. A secret scheme to do something (4)
  2. 3. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse (12)
  3. 5. Two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be ___ relative to that context (7)
  4. 9. Extravagant exaggeration (9)
  5. 11. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work (5)
  6. 14. A characteristic state of feeling (4)