Language Features Recap

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Across
  1. 3. on the subject, the type of poem, purpose, and style.
  2. 4. the use of a word whose sound imitates, suggests, and reinforces its meaning.
  3. 7. a brief, undeveloped reference to a familiar or famous place, event, or figure from
  4. 9. the positioning of words to emphasize the agreement or similarity of their sounds.
  5. 10. a figure of speech to draw an indirect comparison between two dissimilar things using
  6. 13. or “as”.
  7. 14. a repetition of the same consonant (consonance) in close succession.
  8. 16. can be literal or figurative.
  9. 17. as it is one device used for achieving compression in writing, it differs from a direct
  10. 18. a line of poetry that ends without punctuation, causing the reader to continue into the
Down
  1. 1. line without a pause.
  2. 2. deliberate use of exaggeration for serious or humorous emphasis; also called overstatement.
  3. 3. the choice of words, phraseology, or vocabulary used purposefully by the writer
  4. 5. a resemblance of vowel sounds between syllables of nearby words
  5. 6. a figure of speech attributing human qualities to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract
  6. 8. two unlike objects.
  7. 11. a common figure of speech in which a direct comparison or identification is made
  8. 12. words that help the reader sense or picture what is being described; sensory
  9. 15. by virtue of its brevity (an overt allusion).