Glossary Checkpoint 9

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Across
  1. 2. the process of using the resources of language to persuade an audience to agree with a particular point of view
  2. 4. mark (!) used for emphasis; for example to indicate excitement or shock
  3. 5. the rhetorical technique of using exaggeration for effect
  4. 6. an account of a person's life, written by the person
  5. 9. a direct comparison introduced by like' or 'as,
  6. 10. the art of skilful and effective public speaking. A good orator is likely to make use of rhetoric
  7. 12. a short poem with three lines and 17 syllables; lines 1 and 3 have 5 syllables each and line 2 has 7
  8. 13. writing describing a person, place, experience or thing in detail
  9. 15. the sentence, and may not require a pause
  10. 17. the origin of a word
  11. 18. a true story or account of events, written from a personal point of view
  12. 20. the rest of a word is on the next line
  13. 23. a technique used in poetry and other forms of writing, which compares or connects opposites
  14. 24. an indirect comparison in which it is implied that one thing is like another,
  15. 26. giving an object or animal human Characteristics
  16. 28. a rhetorical and narrative technique that aims to gain the sympathy of the audience
  17. 29. words used by a profession or group that are hard to understand
Down
  1. 1. a pause or break in the middle of a line
  2. 3. when the sound of a word echoes its meaning, for example, boom
  3. 7. () used to enclose supplemental information in a sentence
  4. 8. the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
  5. 11. (-) used to link compound words, or to show
  6. 14. about an imaginary state or society in which there is suffering or injustice
  7. 16. narrative (using 'I') telling the story from one of the character's point of view
  8. 19. (..) used to emphasise a pause; for example, to indicate uncertaintyenjambment where the end of the line is not the end
  9. 21. (-) used to indicate an interruption to the main structure of a sentence
  10. 22. the study of words and parts of words such as roots, prefixes and suffixes
  11. 25. a combination of words that seem to contradict each other
  12. 27. the use of similar sounds (particularly vowels) close together