Across
- 1. A short personal narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode/event
- 3. Omitting conjunctions (FANBOYS) between words, phrases, or clauses.
- 5. A type of amplification that lists or details the parts of something. The subject is further distributed into components or parts.
- 6. Repeats a word or phrase at the end of a clause or phrase and then again at the beginning of the next clauses or phrases
- 8. metaphor where something being compared is referred to something closely associated with it.
- 10. Repeats a word or phrase in successive phrases or clauses on purpose for effect.
- 16. Antithesis puts two contrasting ideas together. Antithesis requires parallel structure and exact opposites, unlike juxtaposition.
- 17. Series of conjunctions not normally found in successive words, words, phrases, or clauses
- 23. A word or a phrase is repeated at the end of successive clauses
- 25. A grammatical term. The use of words or phrases with a similar structure.
- 27. Any combination of repeated vowel sounds in quick succession at the beginning, middle, and/or end of words.
- 29. A question whose answer is obvious or implied.
- 31. comparison by directly relating one thing to another unrelated thing.
- 33. The use of regional dialect or informal language in writing or speaking.
- 35. comparison using “like” or “as”
- 36. Compares two different things that have similar characteristics along multiple lines, meaning you break the concept down into parts and compare the parts.
- 39. Used to embellish a sentence or statement by adding further information.
- 40. The same word or phrase occurs on either side of an intervening word or phrase
- 41. any minimization of something & is used for humorous purposes, to comfort people, to be humble, and many other purposes.
Down
- 2. Figures of speech that play with and shift the expected and literal meaning of words.
- 4. Grammatical term: how words function in a sentence. Phrases and clauses are meaningful, grammatical entities that can combine to make up sentences.
- 7. A situation or statement characterized by a significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant.
- 9. A two word paradox.
- 11. Personification is an act of giving human characteristics to animals or objects to create imagery.
- 12. Any combination of repeated consonant sounds in quick succession at the beginning, middle, and/or end of words.
- 13. A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept.
- 14. Repeats a word or phrase for emphasis in succession.
- 15. words, commonly in a humorous way, that sound similar but have different meanings.
- 18. Excessive exaggeration
- 19. a word that modifies two or more words in different ways
- 20. Two successive phrases/clauses are parallel in syntax, but reverse the order of the same words.
- 21. Open to or having more than one possible meaning or interpretation.
- 22. An inverted grammatical structure using synonymous or antithetical terms, but not the same words.
- 24. The repetition of initial sounds in the first stressed syllable of words in close proximity
- 26. A statement that seems contradictory, but is actually true.
- 28. Technique to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule.
- 30. One or more questions is/are asked and then answered, often at length.
- 32. literary device that sets the overall tempo or pace of a literary work.
- 34. Prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work
- 35. A word standing for part of something is used for the whole of that thing or vice versa
- 37. A reference to a famous event, work of art, person, or idea
- 38. Any kind of work which mimics a familiar style (of artist, genre, or work) to invoke humour.