Figurative Language
Across
- 2. type of irony that happens when the reader knows something important that the characters do not.
- 4. part made to represent a whole; "the hawks beat Union and Western" The Hawks= Mission Oak High school football team
- 7. "the wind whispered to me and told me that I needed a sweater." is an example of...
- 12. the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
- 13. the repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds within words, phrases, or sentences
- 14. a short statement expressing a general truth; "a picture is worth a thousand words," "out of sight, out of mind."
- 15. a reference to a book, song, event... etc.
Down
- 1. her mind was a sponge and absorbed & remembered everything she had heard
- 3. "The gun shot of *pew pew pew.*" The "pew pew pew" is an example of what?
- 5. expression that can't be understood separately, but has a meaning of its own; "its raining cats and dogs"
- 6. irony that is an example of sarcasm
- 8. the school was as busy as a beehive
- 9. another word for exaggeration
- 10. a form of irony that appears when something different happens than what you expected.
- 11. joke that exploits different possible meanings of a word or fact and give it a different meaning; "why are teddy bears never hungry? They're always stuffed!"