Across
- 2. anything that stands for itself and something else
- 4. a reference to a well-known person, place, event, or literary work or work of art
- 6. a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else
- 8. words that contradict each other (i.e. jumbo shrimp)
- 10. a comparison of 2 unlike things using the words like or as
- 13. the writer’s attitude toward his or her audience and subject
- 14. substituting an inoffensive word or phrase for an unpleasant or embarrassing expression
- 15. conversation between characters that may reveal their traits and advance the action of a narrative
- 17. use of clues to suggest events that will happen
- 18. when a nonhuman thing is given human characteristics
Down
- 1. a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement
- 3. the use of words that imitate sounds
- 5. the difference between appearance and reality or expectation and result
- 7. a central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work
- 9. the repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with different consonant sounds
- 11. question posed by the speaker/author in order to bring attention to an issue that does not look for answers
- 12. involves placing two things side by side to highlight their differences or similarities
- 16. the repetition of final consonant sounds in stressed syllables with different vowel sounds; sit and sat
- 19. descriptive language used to create word pictures for the reader by using detail that appeal to our senses