AP Terms Crossword
Across
- 1. a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing; "downsizing" instead of making cuts or "relieve oneself" for urinating
- 5. when a part of something is used to refer to the whole
- 8. the expression of one's meaning using language that normally signifies the opposite, generally to humorous or emphatic effect; if referring to a situation, it is contrary to what is expected
- 9. placing two things side by side so as to highlight their differences; wealth and poverty, darkness and light, beauty and ugliness
- 11. figure of speech that directly refers to one thing by mentioning another
- 13. the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
- 15. the repetition of a word at the beginning of successive clauses
- 16. a figure of speech in which a word is applied to two others in different senses or to two others of which it grammatically suits only one; "caught the train and a cold"
- 18. a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words, often understood only by certain groups of people
- 19. a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly; the feeling, positive or negative, attached to a word apart from its literal meaning
- 21. an extreme exaggeration
- 23. a realization
- 25. an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect reference
- 27. a list or series of words, phrases, or clauses that is connected with the repeated use of the same conjunction
- 28. the mood implied by an author's word choice and the way that the text can make a reader feel
- 29. giving human qualities to non-human things
- 33. when something is used to represent something related to it
- 34. an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned
- 35. ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed through its contrary
- 36. literature that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning
- 37. a speech to a person that is not present or a personified object
- 38. main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work which is conveyed by an author and interpreted by a reader
- 39. the reversing of the order of words/sentence structure in the second of two parallel phrases or sentences
Down
- 2. the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose which correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.
- 3. a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true
- 4. the formation of a word from a sound associated with what it is named
- 5. something that stands for or suggests something else; it represents something beyond literal meaning
- 6. literature intended to teach the reader
- 7. a comparison between two things in order to explain or clarify; "Life is like a box of chocolates- you never know what you're gonna get."
- 10. pairs exact opposite or contrasting ideas in a parallel grammatical structure
- 12. a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings
- 14. a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly, typically someone who has just died
- 17. a warning or an indication of a future event
- 20. the omitting of conjunctions in a series of words, phrases, or clauses; "I came. I saw. I conquered."
- 22. a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
- 24. the description of something as having much less of a particular quality than it does; opposite of hyperbole
- 26. a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid, often (but not exclusively) using "like" or "as" to link the comparison
- 30. one sense (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch) is used to describe another
- 31. use of different words to say the same thing twice in the same statement
- 32. the omitting of words in a clause