Across
- 2. Refers to a comparison between two things which are essentially dissimilar. The comparison is directly stated through words such as like, as, than or resembles.
- 3. Refers to an exaggeration in the service of truth - an overstatement.
- 7. Refers to a direct or indirect reference to a familiar figure, place or event from history, literature, mythology or the Bible.
- 8. Refers to the prevailing feeling that is created in a story or poem.
- 9. Refers to a direct comparison between two things which are essentially dissimilar.
- 10. Refers to the comparison or contrast of things that are different.
- 12. Refers to the property of a word whose pronunciation sounds like the thing it describes.
Down
- 1. Refers to visually descriptive or figurative language.
- 4. Refers to giving human attributes to an animal, object or idea.
- 5. Refers to a series of stressed or accented syllables in a group of words, arranged so that the reader expects a similar series to follow.
- 6. Refers to the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
- 11. Refers to a verse form consisting of eight lines.