Across
- 2. Clue: “Fair is foul, and foul is fair.” What device reverses the structure or meaning in a mirrored way?
- 4. Clue: Saying "passed away" instead of "died." What softens harsh or taboo truths?
- 6. Clue: An exaggeration used for emphasis, not meant to be taken literally.
- 7. Clue: When an author deliberately leaves something out or unsaid, creating a gap.
- 11. Clue: In Animal Farm, pigs speak, govern, and make laws like humans. What device makes animals act with full human traits?
- 12. Clue: “Heavy lightness! Serious vanity!” What is it called when contradictory ideas are paradoxically combined?
- 14. Clue: “She sells sea shells by the sea shore.” What device relies on repetition of initial consonant sounds?
- 16. Clue: “The silence was deafening.” What contradiction in terms expresses a deeper truth?
Down
- 1. Clue: A story within a story, like when a character reads or watches another story that mirrors the main one.
- 3. Clue: A figure of speech using like or as to make a comparison.
- 5. Clue: "The wind whispered secrets through the trees." What device gives human traits to non-human things?
- 8. Clue: “Boom!” “Crash!” “Tick-tock!” Which device uses words that imitate sounds?
- 9. Clue: A phrase that compares two unlike things directly, saying one is the other. "Life is a tree"
- 10. Clue: A device in which the same word is repeated at the beginning of several clauses or sentences.
- 13. Clue: “The pen is mightier than the sword.” What device substitutes something related for the thing meant?
- 15. Clue: Saying something opposite to what one means, often sarcastically.