Across
- 2. a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
- 8. the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
- 9. When something (usually a text, video), is referenced without it being directly stated or expressed
- 11. a combination of contradictory or incongruous words
- 12. giving a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
- 14. a situation in which something has more than one possible meaning and may therefore cause confusion
Down
- 1. a literary device by which the audience's or reader's understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters
- 3. is an expected outcome does not happen, or its opposite happens instead.
- 4. exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
- 5. When a speaker’s words don’t match up with what they really mean.
- 6. When adjacent or closely connected words have the same letter or sound at the beginning
- 7. A group of words with an established meaning not able to be understood by reading the individual words
- 10. visually descriptive figurative language, especially in a literary work; uses the five sense (touch, taste, smell, hearing, sight)
- 13. the comparison of one thing with something else, used to make a description more vivid; uses like, as, resembles, than