Honors English Review Game
Across
- 2. A direct comparison between two unlike things, using the wordslikeoras
- 3. Descriptive language that engages and/or appeals to the human senses -sight, sound, smell, taste, touch. (Other literary devices can also express imagery at the same time.)
- 5. A comparison between two unlike things - saying something IS something else
- 9. Extreme exaggeration
- 10. A figure of speech in which two opposite words (or ideas) are joined to create an eect
Down
- 1. Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things
- 4. Repeating words, phrases, lines, or stanzas
- 6. Repetition of the same consonant sound at the start of a series of words or sentences (the words do not have to be next to one another)
- 7. Irony When a speaker says one thing but means another (can be sarcastic)
- 8. An indirect reference to: people, places, events, literary works, myths, or works of art. (In Shakespeare, it is usually a reference to something in Greek Mythology.)