Riddles 2

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Across
  1. 6. I am an exaggeration so great that I cannot possibly be true. What am I?
  2. 9. I am a 5-letter word that becomes shorter when you add two letters to it. What am I?
  3. 10. I am the longest word in the English language that can be played on a single row of a typewriter. What am I?
  4. 11. I am the name for a group of words that sounds like what it describes (like "Boom" or "Zip"). What am I?
  5. 13. I am a word that sounds the same as another but has a different meaning and spelling. What am I?
  6. 15. I have a tail but no body, and I love to join two independent thoughts together. What am I?
  7. 17. Mark I come at the end of an inquisitive sentence. I look like a hook. What am I?
  8. 18. I am a word used to describe a noun. I make things more colorful and specific. What am I?
Down
  1. 1. I replace a noun so you don't have to keep repeating it. What am I?
  2. 2. I am a story where the characters and events are symbols for ideas about human life. What am I?
  3. 3. I describe an action, a state, or an occurrence. Without me, a sentence cannot breathe. What am I?
  4. 4. I am the part of the sentence that performs the action. What am I?
  5. 5. I am a word that is spelled the same forwards and backwards. What am I?
  6. 7. Office I start with "P" and end with "E," but I have thousands of letters inside me. What am I?
  7. 8. I am a punctuation mark used to indicate a pause or to separate items in a list. What am I?
  8. 9. I am a comparison that uses the words "like" or "as." What am I?
  9. 12. What English word has three consecutive double letters?
  10. 14. I am a sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet. What am I called?
  11. 16. I show ownership without saying "mine." I look like a floating comma. What am I?