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- 3. noun: the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning.
- 6. noun: the repeating of a word or phrase. It is a common rhetorical device used to add emphasis and stress in writing and speech.
- 7. noun: a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn.
- 8. noun: a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content.
- 9. noun: understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy").
- 10. noun: a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (such as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part (such as society for high society), the species for the genus (such as cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (such as a creature for a man), or the name of the material for the thing made (such as boards for stage).
- 11. noun: a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable").
- 13. what the character or narrator telling the story can see (his or her perspective).
- 16. noun: a combination of contradictory or incongruous words.
- 18. noun: a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule.
- 19. noun: In rhetoric and literary studies, the distinctive style or manner of expression of an author or narrator.
- 20. noun: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain.
Down
- 1. style or manner of expression in speaking or writing.
- 2. noun: extravagant exaggeration.
- 4. noun: a conscious state of mind or predominant emotion : noun. feeling.
- 5. noun: figurative language.
- 10. noun: a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as.
- 12. noun: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them.
- 14. noun: any of a small set of words (such as I, she, he, you, it, we, or they) in a language that are used as substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and whose referents are named or understood in the context.
- 15. noun: one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases.
- 17. noun: the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it.