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