Rhetorical Devices

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Across
  1. 5. Comparison used to explain
  2. 6. To refer to and event, figure or object.
  3. 7. An exaggeration or overstatement
  4. 8. the attitude of the author to the specific subject
  5. 10. A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true.
  6. 12. the people viewing or reading a work
  7. 14. repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of phrases or clauses.
  8. 15. the central idea of a work
  9. 16. the statement that is the focus of the essay
  10. 18. desire to return to a former time
Down
  1. 1. A brief, personal, story.
  2. 2. To make fun of a human vice or weakness
  3. 3. the implied meaning of a word, different than its dictionary meaning.
  4. 4. words used to invoke your senses
  5. 9. A statement that is contradictory to what is expected.
  6. 11. a milder substitution that is less harsh than the original word.
  7. 13. appeal to emotion
  8. 17. appeal to authority
  9. 19. appeal to logic