Across
- 2. a comparison between two unlike things using “like”, “as” or “than”
- 4. a phrase that, when taken as a whole, has a meaning you wouldn’t be able to deduce from the meanings of the individual words
- 6. the repetition of initial consonant sounds in proximity
- 9. a figurative comparison between two different things
- 10. the use of two words in proximity that are opposite in meaning
- 12. a figure of speech when a part of something is used to define the whole
- 13. the inversion of regular word order for poetic or linguistic reasons
Down
- 1. the placing of ideas or images next to each other, without the author drawing a clear relationship between them–because the reader should
- 3. a reference to a literary or historical person, place, event, thing in order to show comparison
- 5. a figure of speech in which a related term is substituted for the word itself
- 6. an overt comparison between two things, usually to show similarity or to make a comparison
- 7. the use of known cultural symbols to represent ideas or qualities
- 8. the use of over-exaggeration, not meant to be literal
- 10. a word that sounds like what it refers to; saying the word IS what the word is
- 11. the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract nouns