Rhetorical Devices

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Across
  1. 1. Language describing specific observable things, people, or places rather than ideas or qualities.
  2. 3. A comparison between two unlike things, developed over several sentences, paragraphs, or even throughout an entire passage.
  3. 4. Language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience.
  4. 6. A statement that serves as the foundational idea of an argument.
  5. 7. The Literal or objective meaning of a word
  6. 8. The way an author’s personality and style shows in their writing.
Down
  1. 1. An assertion that something is true or existing.
  2. 2. Implied ideas or feelings a word carries beyond its literal meaning.
  3. 5. Language describing feelings, concepts, ideas, or qualities, rather than concrete images.