Learn Your A.P. Terms | Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. An exaggerated statement that emphasizes the significance of the statements actual meaning.
  2. 6. A novel, play, or poem that is ______ aims to teach us something. These words often have to impart or are written to teach us something about religion, philosophy, history, or politics.
  3. 12. The use of a word to modify or govern syntactically two or more words with only one of which formally agrees in gender.
  4. 14. Places two or more dissimilar characters, themes, concepts, etc. side by side, and the profound contrast highlights their differences.
  5. 15. A writing style where conjunctions are omitted in a series of words, phrases, or clauses. It is used to shorten a sentence and focus on its meaning.
  6. 17. Saying something is like something else to make some sort of explanatory point.
  7. 19. The wage of a part to represent the whole. That is rather than an object or title that merely associated with the larger concept it must actually be attached in some way either to the name or the whole itself.
  8. 21. Describes a series of words in quick succession that all start with the same letter or sound. It lends a pleasing cadence to prose and poetry both.
  9. 22. A character has a ______ when they experience a sudden insight or realization that changes their understanding.
  10. 27. A figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it is.
  11. 31. When the author hints at events yet to come in a story.
  12. 32. Is a figure of speech that juxtaposes two contrasting or opposing ideas usually within parallel grammatical structures.
  13. 34. Is an indirect, polite way of describing something to inappropriate or awkward to address directly. However, most people will still understand the truth about what's happening.
  14. 35. A salient abstract idea that emerges from the treatment of the subject matter.
  15. 37. A figure of speech that means something different than a literal translation of the words would lead one to believe.
  16. 38. When a sentence or short paragraph represents a word or phrase, experiencing the same idea twice.
  17. 39. Is the signature literary device of the double negative. It is to express certain sentiments through their opposites by saying the opposite is not the case.
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  1. 1. An author's blending of human senses to describe an object.
  2. 2. A literary device that describes a person, place, or object by accompanying or replacing it with a descriptive word or phrase.
  3. 4. Uses characters and plot to depict abstract ideas and themes. In these kinds of stories, things represent more than they appear to on the surface.
  4. 5. It is similar to symbolism but different. It doesn't just symbolize something else, it comes to serve as a synonym for that thing or things, typically a single object embodies an entire institution.
  5. 7. Is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a series of clauses or sentences. It's often seen in poetry and speeches, intended to provoke an emotional response in its audience.
  6. 8. Something that stands for or suggests something else.
  7. 9. A play on words. Involves words with similar or identical sounds but with different meanings.
  8. 10. Refers to the overall mood and message of your book. it's established through a variety of means. It sets the feelings you want your reader to take away from the story.
  9. 11. Uses several conjunctions in succession for a dramatic effect.
  10. 13. A figure of speech that compares two dissimilar things.
  11. 16. It's a statement that asks people to think outside the box by providing seemingly illogical yet actually true premises.
  12. 17. Is a passing or indirect descriptive reference to something. You ______ to things all the time in everyday speech.
  13. 18. Creates a contrast between how things seem and how they really are.
  14. 20. The use of a word to suggest a different association than its literal meaning which is known as denotation.
  15. 23. Refers to words that sound like the thing that they're referring.
  16. 24. When phrases in a sentence have similar or the same grammatical structure.
  17. 25. Uses human traits to describe non-human things.
  18. 26. Two contradictory words that describe one thing.
  19. 28. Is an omission of words or events that allow readers to fill the gaps in the sentence or narrative.
  20. 29. A speech in honor of someone generally a deceased person.
  21. 30. Is when two or more parallel clauses are inverted.
  22. 33. When a character in a literary work speaks to an object and idea or someone who doesn't exist as if it is a living person.
  23. 36. Compares two similar things by saying that one of them is the other.