Rhetorical Devices Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. A kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of its parts, or vice versa.
  2. 4. Two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses, or even ideas, with parallel structure.
  3. 6. The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words.
  4. 7. Making an implied comparison, not using “like,” as,” or other such words. “My feet are popsicles.”
  5. 10. A folk saying with a lesson. “A rolling stone gathers no moss.”
  6. 13. The fictional mask or narrator that tells a story.
  7. 14. Anything that represents or stands for something else.
  8. 18. A writer's attitude toward his subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language and organization.
  9. 20. When apparently contradictory terms are grouped together and suggest a paradox – “wise fool,” “eloquent silence,” “jumbo shrimp.”
  10. 21. The use of a word which imitates or suggests the sound that the thing makes.
  11. 22. An indirect reference to something (usually a literary text, although it can be other things commonly known, such as plays, songs, historical events) with which the reader is supposed to be familiar.
  12. 23. Sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns.
  13. 24. Using words such as “like” or “as” to make a direct comparison between two very different things.
  14. 25. Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences or clauses in a row.
  15. 26. Word choice, particularly as an element of style
  16. 28. A brief recounting of a relevant episode, often inserted into fictional or non fictional texts as a way of developing a point or injecting humor.
  17. 29. A term used to describe fiction, nonfiction or poetry that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking.
Down
  1. 1. A description involving a “crossing of the senses.”
  2. 3. Placing things side by side for the purposes of comparison.
  3. 5. Giving human-like qualities to something that is not human.
  4. 8. Question Question not asked for information but for effect.
  5. 9. Often used to slow down the pace of the writing and/or add an authoritative tone.
  6. 10. A story, fictional or non fictional, in which characters, things, and events represent qualities or concepts. The interaction of these characters, things, and events is meant to reveal an abstraction or a truth.
  7. 11. When a single word governs or modifies two or more other words, and the the meaning of the first word must change for each of the other words it governs or modifies.
  8. 12. Exaggeration
  9. 15. A terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle.
  10. 16. Idea Parentheses are used to set off an idea from the rest of the sentence.
  11. 17. A recurring idea in a piece of literature. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the idea that “you never really understand another person until you consider things from his or her point of view”
  12. 19. When the opposite of what you expect to happen does.
  13. 22. The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.
  14. 27. A common, often used expression that doesn’t make sense if you take it literally.