Across
- 7. To immediately repeat a word in the same way.
- 10. Using irony and negatives to affirm a positive. Affirm something by denying the opposite.
- 13. Using unnecessary words in sentences that don’t require them
- 15. Using numbers in a statement to make it seem credible and give meaning behind that statement.
- 17. The use of a single verb to connect a series of clauses.
- 18. Is one type of speech in which the use of tense, form or person is grammatically incorrect.
- 19. refers to the arrangement of sentences in where contains subordinate clauses or phrase that merely build on and ad to the main clause.
- 20. A hyperbole in the form where it expresses impossibility
- 23. Two words that start with the same sound ( not letter), which are used repeatedly in a sentence.
- 24. The use of a word in a misused or incorrect way.
- 28. Applying a single word to two others when it only grammatically suits one
- 30. To disturb the usual order of words in a sentence
- 31. A sentence that leaves the important information (verb and subject) until the final clause.
- 35. Describing a sense in terms of another (describing sight as sound), can also use abstract things to describes senses.
- 36. Applying an adjective to the wrong noun.
- 39. A sentence constructed only by adjectives and verbs
- 40. When human characteristics are attributed to something that is not human
Down
- 1. When words mirror each other leaving a reverse order
- 2. The repeated use of particular words or phrases in the start of the same sentence for a more dramatic effect.
- 3. This is when we stress to find the difference between verb and noun.
- 4. Using three words or phrases in succession and them having parallel structure with each other.
- 5. The device of suddenly breaking off in speech. In other words, when the sentence is purposefully left incomplete or cut off.
- 6. The use of the same word/phrase, but having other words/phrases in the middle, like a sandwich,
- 8. The use of the same word, but with a different meaning, in the same sentence. Can also be using different words that come from the same root.
- 9. Ending sentences, clauses, paragraphs with the same word, phrase or whole sentences.
- 11. The connection between two things because they are physically connected, not because they are similar. Instead of mentioning something by its name, it is mentioned by something it is physically touching.
- 12. When you have an adjective and a noun and then the adjective is turned and used as another noun. In other words, “one by means of two”.
- 13. A statement that seems absurd as first, but when analyzed proves to be truthful
- 14. the repetition of the last part of a sentence at the beginning of the next sentence.
- 16. a question that normally requires no answer. This is because it was asked for dramatic effect or to cause curiosity.
- 21. Also referred to as the “extreme form of metonymy” were instead of referring to something by their name or what they are physically touching, it is now referred to as a body part.
- 22. “Contrast or opposite”. Is the pair exact opposite or contrasting ideas in a parallel grammatical structure.
- 25. The usage of a pronoun before stating what it refers to
- 26. The exaggeration of a statement used not to be taken literally
- 27. Making a “list” whilst talking or writing, piling up words or phrases
- 29. Two phrases or clauses that are structurally or grammatically parallel
- 32. Simple sentences or phrase whose relationships to one another, of logic, space, time or cause- and- effect, are left to the reader to interpret
- 33. Figure of speech by which single things referees to a conventional phrase. With merism you don't say what you’re talking about, and instead name all of its parts.
- 34. Is a list of person’s, mostly are loved ones, their comprised by similes, metaphors and other literary devices
- 37. The repetition of the first word at the beginning of a clause or sentence and at the end of that same clause or sentence. Ending where you began.
- 38. Repetition of vowel sounds