English techniques
Across
- 6. , comparing something using “like” or “as”.
- 8. , describing something non-human as if it has human characteristics such as feelings.
- 10. , when animal characteristics are assigned to humans.
- 12. , the author’s attitude toward the subject of work or toward the audience.
- 13. , an extended speech by one person in literature and drama.
- 14. , something used to stand for or represent something else.
- 16. , group of lines forming a unit in a poem (a clearly demarcated part of a poem).
- 20. , language intended to create an emotional response.
- 21. , a hissing sound is created within a group of words through the repetition of “s” sound.
Down
- 1. , words that sound like what they mean
- 2. , the arrangement of words to form a regular beat through a pattern of stresses.
- 3. , A descriptive technique that names a person, thing or action as something else
- 4. , the attribution of human characteristics, emotions, and behaviours to animals or other non-human things.
- 5. , repetition of consonant sounds at the begging of words.
- 7. , the overall feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
- 9. , a figure of speech in which the same consonant sound repeats writhing a group of words.
- 11. , a phrase that consists of 2 words that are contradictory.
- 15. , a type of personification where emotions are given to a setting, an object or the weather.
- 17. , a use of obvious exaggeration for rhetorical effect.
- 18. , when a sentence runs over from one line of verse into the next.
- 19. , a one-stanza- 14 line poem.