UNIT 1 TERMS PUZZLE

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Across
  1. 2. A figure of speech in which a word or group of words located at the end of one clause or sentence is repeated at or near the beginning of the following clause or sentence.
  2. 4. a literary device that refers to the use of symbols in a literary work.
  3. 7. Deliberate exaggeration of a person, thing, quality, event to emphasize a point external to the object of exaggeration; intentional exaggeration for rhetorical effect.
  4. 13. a word that sounds like what it refers to or describes.
  5. 14. Figure of addition and emphasis which intentionally employs a series of conjunctions (and, or, but, for, nor, so, yet) not normally found in successive words, phrases, or clauses; the deliberate and excessive use of conjunctions in successive words or clauses.
  6. 15. Figure that binds together TWO words that are ordinarily contradictory; a TWO WORD paradox; two words with contrary or apparently contradictory meanings occurring next to each other, and, which, nonetheless, evoke some measure of truth; the figure conjures a new way of seeing or understanding, a novel meaning.
  7. 17. Figure that employs an apparent contradiction which, nonetheless, evokes some measure of truth; a statement which seems at one level to be nonsensical because it moves against a normalcy. At another level, however, the figure conjures a new way of seeing or understanding, a novel meaning.
  8. 21. a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is repeated within a sentence, but the word or phrase means something different each time it appears.
  9. 25. Figure of repetition that occurs when the last word or set of words in one sentence, clause, or phrase is repeated one or more times at the end of successive sentences, clauses, or phrases.
  10. 26. Very common figure that uses adjacent adjective-noun or adjectival phrase forms to characterize and/or amplify (positively or negatively) a person, thing, attribute, or quality; the use of a qualifying word or phrase to further describe something (e.g., "fun ride," "bad omen," "cheerful giver," "harsh mistress").
  11. 27. Figure of explication in which two things that share at least one attribute are explicitly associated with each other; an overt comparison between two unlike things as though they were similar -- usually with the words "like" or "as".
  12. 28. Figure of comparison in which a word standing for part of something is used for the whole of that thing or vice versa; any part or portion or quality of a thing used to stand for the whole of the thing or vice versa -- genus to species or species to genus.
Down
  1. 1. A figure of speech in which the grammar of one phrase is inverted in the following phrase, such that two key concepts from the original phrase reappear in the second phrase in inverted order.
  2. 3. Figure which represents abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities, including physical, emotional, and spiritual; the application of human attributes or abilities to nonhuman entities.
  3. 5. A type of figurative language in which an object or concept is referred to not by its own name, but instead by the name of something closely associated with it.
  4. 6. a figure of speech in which a phrase is repeated, but with the order of words reversed.
  5. 8. A figure of speech featuring a phrase that utilizes negative wording or terms to express a positive assertion or statement.
  6. 9. A figure of speech in which the beginning of a clause or sentence is repeated at the end of that same clause or sentence, with words intervening.
  7. 10. A rhetorical device that can be defined as a phrase intentionally used to exploit the confusion between words having similar sounds but different meanings.
  8. 11. Figure of explication occurring when a comparison made by speaking of one thing in terms of another; an implied comparison between two different things which share at least one attribute in common; an association between two unlike things (A vs. B) achieved by borrowing the language that refers to thing A and applying it to thing B. (not to be confused with simile)
  9. 12. The usage of a word in a new grammatical form, most often the usage of a noun as a verb.
  10. 16. Figure of balance in which two contrasting ideas are intentionally juxtaposed, usually through parallel structure; a contrasting of opposing ideas in adjacent phrases, clauses, or sentences.
  11. 18. Figure of repetition that occurs when the first word or set of words in one sentence, clause, or phrase is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of successive sentences, clauses, or phrases; repetition of the initial word(s) over successive phrases or clauses.
  12. 19. Figure of explication using a brief or casual reference to a famous person, group, historical event, place, or work of art. It is important to stress that the referent of an allusion be generally well-known. Sources include history, myth, and the Bible. Contemporary instances of allusion extend to media created content, events, and persons -- even to the extent that a character in one movie may use an allusion in referring to a fictional, but nonetheless well-known, event or person from another movie. Popular music lyrics are a further source of allusion.
  13. 20. When a single word that governs or modifies two or more others must be understood differently with respect to each of those words. A combination of grammatical parallelism and semantic incongruity, often with a witty or comical effect.
  14. 22. Figure of addition in which words are placed side by side (in apposition to) each other with one word describing or clarifying the other; adjacent nouns or noun substitutes with one elaborating the other.
  15. 23. a literary device or event in which how things seem to be is in fact very different from how they actually are.
  16. 24. A witty understatement that belittles or dismisses something or somebody; particularly by making use of terms that give an impression that something is less important than it is or it should be.