Literary Terms

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Across
  1. 4. the shortening of a sentence or phrase by the omission of words which can be understood
  2. 5. the recurrence of the same consonant, especially in the beginning of words or syllables
  3. 7. the expression of one's meaning by using words of the opposite meaning in order to make one's remarks forceful
  4. 8. a pair of balanced phrases where the order of the second reverses that of the first
  5. 9. the use of understatement, involving a negative, to emphasize one's meaning (the opposite of hyperbole)
Down
  1. 1. the use of unnecessary words
  2. 2. the dislocation of normal word order, by way of displacing one part of one clause into another
  3. 3. a single idea expressed through two nouns
  4. 6. running a sentence over the end of a line of verse then ending it after the first word of the new line, lending emphasis to that word