Across
- 2. Attributing or applying human qualities to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena. e.g My alarm clock screams at me every morning.
- 4. Talking around a topic by substituting or adding words, as in euphemism or periphrasis. e.g Our Father who art in Heaven.
- 6. Directing the attention away from the audience to an absent third party, often in the form of a personified abstraction or inanimate object. e.g Come on trousers; you have to fit me.
- 8. Comparison between two things using like or as. e.g He is as funny as a monkey.
- 9. Use of apparently contradictory ideas to point out some underlying truth. e.g It is the beginning of the end.
- 10. An implied comparison between two things, attributing the properties of one thing to another that it does not literally possess. e.g You are my sunshine.
- 13. Asking a question as a way of asserting something. Asking a question which already has the answer hidden in it. Or asking a question not for the sake of getting an answer but for asserting something (or as in a poem for creating a poetic effect). e.g Can birds fly?
- 15. It is when a specific point, expectations are raised, everything is built-up and then suddenly something boring or disappointing happens. e.g She is a great writer, a mother and a good humorist.
- 16. Derived from a Greek word meaning "simple", is a figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives or, in other words, positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expressions. e.g That dress is not too bad.
- 18. Use of word in a way that conveys a meaning opposite to its usual meaning. e.g The pilot had a fear of flying.
- 19. When a word or phrase is used in two (or more) different senses. e.g A boiled egg for breakfast is hard to beat.
- 22. Word that imitates a real sound (e.g. tick-tock or boom). e.g The car alarm went beep.
- 23. A thing or concept is called not by its own name but rather by the name of something associated in meaning with that thing or concept. e.g The pen is more mighty than the sword.
- 24. Exaggeration of a statement. e.g I have a thousand things to do this morning.
Down
- 1. A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else. e.g That is one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind.
- 3. Redundancy due to superfluous qualification; saying the same thing twice. e.g It’s a great gift.
- 5. A writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is. e.g I only have two million.
- 7. Using two terms together, that normally contradict each other. e.g She is pretty ugly/ happily married.
- 11. A substitution of one part of speech for another, such as noun for a verb and vice versa. e.g If you want to know, just Google it.
- 12. Referring to a part by its whole or vice versa. e.g He has just got some new wheel.
- 14. A literary stylistic device, where a series of words in a row have the same first consonant sound. e.g She sells seashells by the seashore.
- 17. Substitution of a less offensive or more agreeable term for another. e.g She’s a curvy woman.
- 20. A loud calling or crying out. e.g What a happy ending!
- 21. A synonym for hypallage. An adverb or adjective is transferred from a noun to which it belongs to a noun with which it fits only grammatically but not logically or practically. e.g I have had such a wonderful day.