AP Lang Rhetorical Devices/Strategies

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Across
  1. 3. a figure of speech in which one word or phrases is substituted for another with which it is closely related
  2. 6. the direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction
  3. 8. a type of sentence in which the main idea is expressed at the end.
  4. 9. a reference to a person, place, event, or idea
  5. 10. a part is used to represent the whole or the whole for a part
  6. 14. a type of sentence that appears to follow the inner working of the mind by mimicking the rambling, associative syntax of thought
  7. 15. the omission of conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses
  8. 16. the repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next
  9. 19. the repetition of conjunctions in close succession for rhetorical effect
  10. 23. the repetition of a word/phrase at the end of several clauses
  11. 25. the attribution of human qualities/behaviors to an animal, object, or god
  12. 27. a deliberate omission of words but context clues reveals the meaning
  13. 28. a humorous play on words to suggest a different meaning
  14. 29. AKA deductive reasoning - a form of argument or reasoning, consisting of two premises and a conclusion
  15. 30. a terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle
Down
  1. 1. specialized language of a professional, occupational, or other group, often meaningless to outsiders
  2. 2. the repetition of words/phrases at the beginning of successive clauses/verses
  3. 4. a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them
  4. 5. the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words although its use may be grammatically or logically correct with only one
  5. 7. the repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause
  6. 11. a figure of speech in which a writer deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious
  7. 12. a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite
  8. 13. a figure of speech in which the order of the terms in the first of two parallel clauses is reversed in the second
  9. 17. the attribution of characteristics unlike its own
  10. 18. the author's call to action
  11. 20. inversion of normal syntactical structure of a sentence (Yoda Speak)
  12. 21. exaggeration used for emphasis or effect
  13. 22. the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases
  14. 24. a succession of phrasesof approximately equal length and corresponding structure
  15. 26. an expression that, while an or odd or incorrect use of the language, has a meaning that is still understood