Words 31-50
Across
- 2. a literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule
- 3. appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason
- 5. pertaining to words or expressions more suitable for speech than writing; in informal, conversational style
- 6. doubtfulness or uncertainty as regards interpretation.
- 7. intended to instruct; morally instructive
- 11. omission of a word or phrase necessary for a complete syntactical construction but not necessary for understanding.
- 13. a literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision or wit
- 16. to assume an answer to an unstated question or premise
- 18. a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole
- 19. an interchange of position of adjacent objects in a sequence, especially a change in normal word order, such as the placement of a verb before its subject
Down
- 1. used for the particular end or case at hand without consideration of wider application
- 2. a phrase that consists of a preposition and its objact and has adjectival and adverbial value
- 4. a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite, as in this is no smallm prblem
- 8. a use of reason in which the premises depends on or is equivalent to the conclusion
- 9. most specific or direct meaning of a word, in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings
- 10. a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis of effect, as in i could sleep for a year of this book weighs a ton
- 12. the participial phrase includes the participle and the object of the participle or any words modified by or related to the participle
- 14. an argument or opponent set up so as to be easily refuted or defeated
- 15. the state of being placed or situated side by side
- 17. a function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase