The Marshall Plan vocabulary
Across
- 2. a figure of speech that uses like or as to compare seemingly unlike things
- 3. perspective the way an author regards a topic or subject, and his or her attitude toward it
- 6. device a writing or speaking technique that helps to make arguments more persuasive
- 8. on impulse, or randomly chosen
- 11. to provide or give something useful or necessary to
- 12. an appeal to emotion
- 15. to lessen the pain or difficulty of something
- 16. appeal a device that writers use to make their arguments appeal to readers
- 17. a figure of speech that compares two seemingly unlike things but implies a comparison instead of stating it directly with the word like or as
- 18. extremely or to a great degree
- 19. an appeal to logic and reason
- 20. a way of expressing something in writing or speech that is developed using various techniques
Down
- 1. language expressions used for descriptive or rhetorical effect that are not literally true but that express some truth beyond the literal level
- 4. an appeal to ethics and credibility.
- 5. the process of becoming worse; decay
- 7. question a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered
- 8. the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas
- 9. the art of speaking and writing persuasively
- 10. sufficient for the purpose
- 13. involving one group
- 14. purpose an author’s reason for writing, such as to entertain, to inform, or to persuade