Essential Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. A short personal narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode/event
  2. 3. Omitting conjunctions (FANBOYS) between words, phrases, or clauses.
  3. 5. A type of amplification that lists or details the parts of something. The subject is further distributed into components or parts.
  4. 6. Repeats a word or phrase at the end of a clause or phrase and then again at the beginning of the next clauses or phrases
  5. 8. metaphor where something being compared is referred to something closely associated with it.
  6. 10. Repeats a word or phrase in successive phrases or clauses on purpose for effect.
  7. 16. Antithesis puts two contrasting ideas together. Antithesis requires parallel structure and exact opposites, unlike juxtaposition.
  8. 17. Series of conjunctions not normally found in successive words, words, phrases, or clauses
  9. 23. A word or a phrase is repeated at the end of successive clauses
  10. 25. A grammatical term. The use of words or phrases with a similar structure.
  11. 27. Any combination of repeated vowel sounds in quick succession at the beginning, middle, and/or end of words.
  12. 29. A question whose answer is obvious or implied.
  13. 31. comparison by directly relating one thing to another unrelated thing.
  14. 33. The use of regional dialect or informal language in writing or speaking.
  15. 35. comparison using “like” or “as”
  16. 36. Compares two different things that have similar characteristics along multiple lines, meaning you break the concept down into parts and compare the parts.
  17. 39. Used to embellish a sentence or statement by adding further information.
  18. 40. The same word or phrase occurs on either side of an intervening word or phrase
  19. 41. any minimization of something & is used for humorous purposes, to comfort people, to be humble, and many other purposes.
Down
  1. 2. Figures of speech that play with and shift the expected and literal meaning of words.
  2. 4. Grammatical term: how words function in a sentence. Phrases and clauses are meaningful, grammatical entities that can combine to make up sentences.
  3. 7. A situation or statement characterized by a significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant.
  4. 9. A two word paradox.
  5. 11. Personification is an act of giving human characteristics to animals or objects to create imagery.
  6. 12. Any combination of repeated consonant sounds in quick succession at the beginning, middle, and/or end of words.
  7. 13. A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept.
  8. 14. Repeats a word or phrase for emphasis in succession.
  9. 15. words, commonly in a humorous way, that sound similar but have different meanings.
  10. 18. Excessive exaggeration
  11. 19. a word that modifies two or more words in different ways
  12. 20. Two successive phrases/clauses are parallel in syntax, but reverse the order of the same words.
  13. 21. Open to or having more than one possible meaning or interpretation.
  14. 22. An inverted grammatical structure using synonymous or antithetical terms, but not the same words.
  15. 24. The repetition of initial sounds in the first stressed syllable of words in close proximity
  16. 26. A statement that seems contradictory, but is actually true.
  17. 28. Technique to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule.
  18. 30. One or more questions is/are asked and then answered, often at length.
  19. 32. literary device that sets the overall tempo or pace of a literary work.
  20. 34. Prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work
  21. 35. A word standing for part of something is used for the whole of that thing or vice versa
  22. 37. A reference to a famous event, work of art, person, or idea
  23. 38. Any kind of work which mimics a familiar style (of artist, genre, or work) to invoke humour.