Figurative Language
Across
- 3. a reference to mythology, history, or literature
- 4. giving human characteristics to nonhuman things
- 6. uses like or as to compare two things that are not actually alike
- 7. irony saying one thing but implying something very different; like sarcasm
- 8. involves using a word that expresses a sound
- 9. involves using a word or phrase in a humorous way that suggests more than one meaning
Down
- 1. compares two things that are not actually alike without using like or as
- 2. the repetition of sounds at the beginning of nearby words
- 5. an expression that cannot be understood literally