Literary Terms

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Across
  1. 3. rhyming structures with words that share similar sounds but aren't exactly perfect rhymes
  2. 4. brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature
  3. 6. when words or phrases are repeated in succession and agree in both grammar and meaning
  4. 8. a figure of speech where a word or phrase is applied to an object to which it does not literally apply
  5. 9. when language us used that normally signifies the opposite, contrary to what one expects, often for amusing effect
Down
  1. 1. exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
  2. 2. when the same letter or sound occurs at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
  3. 5. a figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear in conjunction
  4. 7. a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more vivid, usually using “like” or “as”