Literature terminology
Across
- 1. sentences that are concise and focus reader on content because there are non unnecessary words to obscure meaning.
- 3. a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases
- 4. repetition of a word or phrase with one or two intervening words.
- 7. repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences.
- 8. anticipating an objection and answering it
- 9. presenting alternatives: "You can eat well or you can sleep well." While such a structure often results in the logical fallacy of the false dichotomy or the either/or fallacy, it can create a cleverly balanced and artistic sentence.
Down
- 2. repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clause
- 3. an indirect way of expressing something
- 5. this device separates speech into numbered parts
- 6. combining anaphora and epistrophe