AP Lang Rhetorical Devices/Strategies

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