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