English Class

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. The ___ matter of a conversation or discussion (7)
  2. 4. An analytic or interpretive literary composition (5)
  3. 6. An amount of time (6)
  4. 8. The placing of one linguistic element before another (11)
  5. 9. A string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language (8)
  6. 12. A function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase (7)
  7. 14. A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally (8)
  8. 15. A determiner that may indicate the specificity of reference of a noun phrase (7)
  9. 16. A punctuation mark used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (5)

Down

  1. 2. An account of the series of events making up a person's life (9)
  2. 3. A short account of the news (6)
  3. 5. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (6)
  4. 7. Creative writing of recognized artistic value (10)
  5. 10. An extended fictional work in prose (5)
  6. 11. The branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (7)
  7. 13. Forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage (8)