Across
- 4. Any word whose sound is like the sound or noise it is describing
- 6. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhyming
- 7. A word formed from the initial letters of a group of words.
- 9. A figure of speech very similar to a simile
- 10. A mark used to indicate the omission of letters or figures
- 13. A word that means the same or nearly the same as another word
- 16. The combining of words that contradict each other
- 17. Used to describe a noun
- 18. A re-arrangement of the letters of a word or phrase which produces another word or phrase
Down
- 1. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
- 2. Specialised language concerned with a particular subject
- 3. A joining word
- 5. Words that are used to disguise a nasty fact with a nice name
- 7. Repetition of the consonant sound at the beginning of words
- 8. Not a consonant
- 11. A comparison using 'like' or 'as'
- 12. A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
- 14. A word used in place of a noun, like I, me, he, him, you, it etc..
- 15. Adds more to a verb