Across
- 1. the repetition of a word or group of words, sometimes with variations, at the beginning of successive sentences
- 5. conveys the author's attitude toward the subject, speaker, or audience
- 6. an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning
- 7. an act of placing two opposing elements close together or side by side
- 9. is a juxtaposition of what, on the surface, appears to be the case with what is actually or expected to happen
- 10. a statement that, despite valid reasoning from true premises, leads to a seemingly self-contradictory/ logically unacceptable conclusion
- 11. the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing
- 12. a rhetorical device that compounds words or phrases that have equivalent meanings so as to create a pattern
Down
- 2. usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident
- 3. the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests
- 4. an indirect or passing reference
- 8. exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally