ELA Figurative Language Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. Also known as a "play on words" when an author or speaker uses similar-sounding words to create humor. The reader or listener must be able to understand both meanings.
  2. 4. An exaggeration that is meant to emphasize a certain emotion or circumstance. This also helps create more context with emotional depth.
  3. 5. A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.
  4. 7. An icon, picture, or object that is used to represent a broader idea or concept that ties to the theme of the story or speech.
  5. 12. A comparison of two unlike objects using the words "like" or "as" to convey an idea, emotion, or concept in an imaginative and vivid way.
  6. 14. a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
  7. 15. When the first sound of every word in a line is the same.
  8. 16. A combination of opposites or contrasting ideas to create a connection and add emphasis, humor or tension.
  9. 17. An expression particular to a region, country, area, or culture. If you're not a native speaker, you may be confused without further context and information.
Down
  1. 1. The giving of human attributes or actions to an inanimate object or animal. This creates life-like qualities that add imagination to mundane objects or events.
  2. 2. The dictionary definition of words.
  3. 3. An idea or feeling a word invokes in addition to literal meaning.
  4. 6. Language that invokes the five senses.
  5. 8. A comparison of usually two unlike objects to create an image in the reader or listeners' minds to convey an idea, emotion, or concept.
  6. 9. Taking words for their basic meaning without metaphor or allegory.
  7. 10. Language that conveys meaning that goes beyond the literal interpretation of words.
  8. 11. Using sound instead of stating the object or person that made the official sound as a sensory effect to entice the reader or listener.
  9. 13. A reference to compare an idea or event to something in pop culture, history, or literature.