Public Speaking and Debate - Vocabulary Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. a genre and a literary device that holds human nature up to criticism (often political in focus)
  2. 5. the quality of being believed or accepted as true, real, or honest
  3. 7. a rhetorical or written technique that appeals to an audience or reader’s emotions
  4. 8. the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect
  5. 10. a rhetorical or written technique that appeals to an audience or reader’s logic
  6. 11. satire that is comic and offers light social commentary (meant to poke fun at a person or situation in an entertaining way)
Down
  1. 1. satire that is dark, rather than comedic (meant to speak truth to power)
  2. 2. an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect
  3. 3. satire that can be comic and light, much like Horatian satire—although it can also be as stinging as Juvenalian satire.
  4. 6. the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing
  5. 9. a rhetorical or written technique that appeals to an audience or reader’s ethics