9th Grade Literary Term Review

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Across
  1. 3. Deliberate use of exaggeration or overstatement, often for comic effect
  2. 5. Rhetorical and persuasive appeal to emotions
  3. 7. Expression characteristic of a language, region, community; not understood literally
  4. 12. Form of parallelism that emphasizes stron contrasts
  5. 13. question, Questions with obvious answers, creating emphasis and emotion
  6. 14. A non-human subject is given human characteristics
  7. 16. Portrays differences between appearance and reality: verbal, dramatic, situational irony
  8. 17. Rhetorical and persuasive appeal to credibility, to ethics, to authority
  9. 18. One thing is spoken of as if it is something else
Down
  1. 1. Question, Questions with obvious answers, creating emphasis, emotions
  2. 2. The sense that something is ominous around the corner: worry, anxiety, fear, stress
  3. 4. Use of words to imitate sounds: whirr, thud, hiss
  4. 6. Atmosphere and emotions created by diction, figurative language, word choices
  5. 8. Reference to well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
  6. 9. Form of parellelism that suggests strong contrasts
  7. 10. Author’s attitude toward subject created by point of view: serious, comic, sarcastic etc
  8. 11. Rhetorical and persuasive appeal to logic
  9. 12. Repetition of initial consonant sounds, giving emphasis, to imitate, musical effects
  10. 15. Compares two things using “like” or “as”