Across
- 4. An object/image representing a larger idea
- 6. Indirect reference to a known person, event or work
- 8. Literal dictionary meaning
- 11. Repeated consonant sounds, often inside or at word endings
- 12. Placing contrasting ideas/images together
- 15. Command or instruction
- 16. Question asked for effect rather than an answer
- 18. Emotional or cultural associations of a word
- 19. Deliberate exaggeration
- 20. Deliberate reuse of a word or phrase
- 21. Repetition of opening words in successive clauses
- 23. Repetition of similar end sounds
- 24. Words chosen to provoke feelings
- 26. Expression with a non-literal conventional meaning
- 27. Giving human qualities to non-human things
- 28. Repetition of similar grammatical patterns
Down
- 1. Repeated initial consonant sounds
- 2. Informal everyday speech
- 3. Repeated vowel sounds in nearby words
- 5. Poetic sentence continuing beyond a line break
- 7. Repeated hissing s/sh sounds
- 9. Details appealing to the senses
- 10. Direct comparison saying one thing is another
- 13. Grouping three related elements for effect
- 14. Specialised vocabulary of a field
- 17. A comparison sustained across several connected details
- 22. Words imitating sounds
- 25. Comparison using like or as