AP Lang Rhetorical Devices/Strategies

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Across
  1. 2. the repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause
  2. 7. the repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next
  3. 9. a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them
  4. 10. the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases
  5. 13. a figure of speech in which a writer deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious
  6. 19. the attribution of human qualities/behaviors to an animal, object, or god
  7. 21. a terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle
  8. 22. the direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction
  9. 26. a part is used to represent the whole or the whole for a part
  10. 28. a succession of phrasesof approximately equal length and corresponding structure
  11. 29. a deliberate omission of words but context clues reveals the meaning
Down
  1. 1. a humorous play on words to suggest a different meaning
  2. 3. the repetition of conjunctions in close succession for rhetorical effect
  3. 4. exaggeration used for emphasis or effect
  4. 5. a figure of speech in which the order of the terms in the first of two parallel clauses is reversed in the second
  5. 6. specialized language of a professional, occupational, or other group, often meaningless to outsiders
  6. 8. an expression that, while an or odd or incorrect use of the language, has a meaning that is still understood
  7. 11. the attribution of characteristics unlike its own
  8. 12. a type of sentence in which the main idea is expressed at the end.
  9. 14. the repetition of a word/phrase at the end of several clauses
  10. 15. the repetition of words/phrases at the beginning of successive clauses/verses
  11. 16. a type of sentence that appears to follow the inner working of the mind by mimicking the rambling, associative syntax of thought
  12. 17. a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite
  13. 18. a figure of speech in which one word or phrases is substituted for another with which it is closely related
  14. 20. inversion of normal syntactical structure of a sentence (Yoda Speak)
  15. 23. AKA deductive reasoning - a form of argument or reasoning, consisting of two premises and a conclusion
  16. 24. the omission of conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses
  17. 25. the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words although its use may be grammatically or logically correct with only one
  18. 27. a reference to a person, place, event, or idea