Rhetorical Devices

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Across
  1. 2. placement of contrasting ideas side by side
  2. 6. indirect reference to something familiar
  3. 7. comparison using “like” or “as”
  4. 10. combination of contradictory terms
  5. 13. phrase with a figurative meaning
  6. 14. giving human traits to nonhuman things
  7. 15. repetition of grammatical structure
  8. 17. contradiction that reveals a deeper truth
Down
  1. 1. appeal based on logic or reasoning
  2. 3. repetition of beginning consonant sounds
  3. 4. difference between expectation and reality
  4. 5. appeal based on credibility or character
  5. 8. intentional understatement
  6. 9. extreme exaggeration for emphasis
  7. 11. emotional persuasive appeal
  8. 12. repeated words or phrases for effect
  9. 13. language appealing to the senses
  10. 16. implied symbolic comparison