Across
- 3. Example: George Orwell's "Animal Farm" is an allegory representing the Russian Revolution.
- 5. Example: "You should believe what the doctor says about your health because she has a medical degree."
- 6. The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.
- 9. Example: In the sentence "Mary went to the party, but she didn't enjoy it," "Mary" is the antecedent of "she."
- 10. This is a Latin term that translates to "to the person." It's an argument or response directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining.
- 11. A logical fallacy in which a proposition is assumed to be true because it has not yet been proven false, or vice versa.
Down
- 1. A figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something nonhuman as if it were present and capable of understanding.
- 2. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
- 4. A rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.
- 5. Example: "She's as smart as Einstein."
- 7. Example: "Life is like a box of chocolates."
- 8. Example: "The blue sky."
- 9. The quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness.
- 11. A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group.
- 12. Example: "Actions speak louder than words."