AP Lang Rhetorical Devices/Strategies

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