Essential Academic Words Crossword

Break something down into parts
To provide reasons or evidence in order to support or oppose something
The message or moral of the story.
Identify similiarities between two or more items
To give a list of character traits is to _________ a character
Giving human qualities to something that is not human
Another term for position statement
To provide reasons for what happened or for on's actions.
To retell the essential details in a shortened version
A comparison of two things using like or as
Add more complexity or elaborate an idea
Evidence, examples, and details all __________________ your position
A series of events in a story
Date, time, place of a story
Differences between two or more things
Consider all the possible options to arrive at a decision
Comparison of two things without using like or as
To draw a conclusion based on text evidence
To arrange or put in order
The reason a character makes their decisions