Rhetorical Choices crossword
Across
- 2. Type of rhetorical question asking for the opinion of a group
- 4. Denying something while still saying it; verbal irony
- 7. The deliberate use of words that sound unpleasant with one another
- 10. Compounding words or phrases that have equal meaning
- 11. A number of items written consecutively
- 12. Used to emphasize the nature of the subject via redundant addition, i.e. "darkest night"
- 14. Beginning a phrase with an exclamation
- 15. Balancing a negative statement with a positive
Down
- 1. The usage of two nouns with dissimilar meanings in similar sentence positions
- 3. Usage of a sentence that means the opposite of what it seems to say
- 5. Using a word at the beginning of a sentence to capture attention, such as "hey", or "listen
- 6. A purposefully hyperbolic statement to assert that something is impossible
- 8. The removal of conjunctions in order to achieve a poetic effect
- 9. Building the initial words and clauses of a sentence to a peak, scaling emphasis the further it goes
- 13. A deliberate understatement used in order to draw attention to a subject
- 16. A contradictory term