English Reviewer
Across
- 1. Is a word or phrase used in two different senses. It is usually used in plays where one word has two different meanings, and is used to create humor.
- 2. A literary device in which part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part.
- 4. When something about a poem doesn't fit our expectations.
- 6. The repetition of same vowel sounds.
- 9. The act of directly comparing two unique (but linked) things.
- 10. Uses "as" or "like".
- 13. A figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures, and events. It preaches some kind of a moral lesson.
- 15. Something's that has its own meaning but which also has another meaning.
- 16. Irony "The water vendor died of dehydration."
- 20. a word pair made of opposites that contradict each other
- 21. The author's feeling about a character or event, created by the choice if words, sounds, images, etc.
- 23. The use of words that means the opposite of what you want to say.
- 25. When writing makes non-human things act human.
- 26. The use of words to create pictures in your imagination.
- 27. A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.
- 28. It is a figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated.
Down
- 1. From Greek word "paradoxon" meaning contrary to expectations, existing belief or perceived opinion. It is often used to make a reader think over an idea in an innovative way.
- 3. Continuing a sentence over several poetry lines.
- 5. Any element (action, object, color, etc.) which is repeated in a text
- 7. Consonant-vowel pairs.
- 8. Repetition of the consonant sounds.
- 11. It is a arrangement of words in order if decreasing importance. Commonly used in ridiculing something.
- 12. Is a figure of speech which rises in steps like a ladder from simple to more important.
- 13. Repetition of sounds at the start of the word.
- 14. Purposely exaggerating appearance or qualities for emphasis.
- 16. Two or more lines that together doe a division of the poem.
- 17. Words whose sound shows the meaning of the word.
- 18. Double/dual view of things
- 19. a specific word, phrase, or structure is repeated several times, to emphasize a particular idea.
- 22. One word or idea is set
- 24. Combining words with the same sound.