Across
- 4. A mild or indirect word or expression for one too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasan
- 6. A newly coined word or expression.
- 7. the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within
- 9. A metaphor is a figure of speech that constructs an analogy between two things or ideas; the analogy is conveyed by the use of a...
- 10. Formation of a word from a sound associated with what is name
- 11. A word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
- 12. the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
- 14. An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
- 15. Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
- 16. The action of repeating something.
- 17. The use of comparing one thing to another different thing
Down
- 1. A consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh.
- 2. Attribute of a personal nature or human characteristic to something nonhuman,
- 3. A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
- 5. Of vital importance; necessary; crucial.
- 8. A statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered;
- 13. A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.
