Literary Devices
Across
- 4. FORESHADOWING, BE A WARNING OR INDICATION OF (A FUTURE EVENT).
- 5. SOMETHING THAT STANDS FOR, REPRESENTS, OR SUGGESTS ANOTHER THING; AN OBJECT USED TO REPRESENT SOMETHING ABSTRACT; EMBLEM. THE DOVE IS A SYMBOL OF PEACE.
- 7. THE OCCURRENCE OF THE SAME LETTER OR SOUND AT THE BEGINNING OF ADJACENT OR CLOSELY CONNECTED WORDS.
- 8. A JOKE EXPLOITING THE DIFFERENT POSSIBLE MEANINGS OF A WORD OR THE FACT THAT THERE ARE WORDS WHICH SOUND ALIKE BUT HAVE DIFFERENT MEANINGS.
- 9. IMAGERY REFERS TO LANGUAGE THAT STIMULATES THE READER'S SENSES. BY EVOKING THOSE SENSES THROUGH TOUCH,TASTE,SOUND,SMELL AND SIGHT
- 10. A WAY OF DESCRIBING SOMETHING BY COMPARING IT TO SOMETHING ELSE USING 'LIKE' OR 'AS', USUALLY IN AN INTERESTING OR IMAGINATIVE WAY.
Down
- 1. EXAGGERATED STATEMENTS OR CLAIMS NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN LITERALLY. I'M SO HUNGRY, I COULD EAT A HORSE.
- 2. A PHRASE OR OPINION THAT IS OVERUSED AND BETRAYS A LACK OF ORIGINAL THOUGHT.
- 3. THE USE OF A WORD TO SUGGEST A DIFFERENT ASSOCIATION THAN ITS LITERAL MEANING.
- 6. THE FORMATION OF A WORD FROM A SOUND ASSOCIATED WITH WHAT IS NAMED (E.G. CUCKOO, SIZZLE ).
- 8. LITERARY DEVICE THAT GIVES HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS TO NONHUMAN THINGS OR INANIMATE OBJECTS.THE NONHUMAN THINGS CAN BE ANIMALS, OBJECTS, OR EVEN A CONCEPT.