Across
- 2. the process of using the resources of language to persuade an audience to agree with a particular point of view
- 4. mark (!) used for emphasis; for example to indicate excitement or shock
- 5. the rhetorical technique of using exaggeration for effect
- 6. an account of a person's life, written by the person
- 9. a direct comparison introduced by like' or 'as,
- 10. the art of skilful and effective public speaking. A good orator is likely to make use of rhetoric
- 12. a short poem with three lines and 17 syllables; lines 1 and 3 have 5 syllables each and line 2 has 7
- 13. writing describing a person, place, experience or thing in detail
- 15. the sentence, and may not require a pause
- 17. the origin of a word
- 18. a true story or account of events, written from a personal point of view
- 20. the rest of a word is on the next line
- 23. a technique used in poetry and other forms of writing, which compares or connects opposites
- 24. an indirect comparison in which it is implied that one thing is like another,
- 26. giving an object or animal human Characteristics
- 28. a rhetorical and narrative technique that aims to gain the sympathy of the audience
- 29. words used by a profession or group that are hard to understand
Down
- 1. a pause or break in the middle of a line
- 3. when the sound of a word echoes its meaning, for example, boom
- 7. () used to enclose supplemental information in a sentence
- 8. the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
- 11. (-) used to link compound words, or to show
- 14. about an imaginary state or society in which there is suffering or injustice
- 16. narrative (using 'I') telling the story from one of the character's point of view
- 19. (..) used to emphasise a pause; for example, to indicate uncertaintyenjambment where the end of the line is not the end
- 21. (-) used to indicate an interruption to the main structure of a sentence
- 22. the study of words and parts of words such as roots, prefixes and suffixes
- 25. a combination of words that seem to contradict each other
- 27. the use of similar sounds (particularly vowels) close together