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Down: 1) misplacing a person, thing, event, or custom outside its appropriate historical time2) an indirect or passing reference to an event, person, place or literary work with out an explination, relying on the reader's familiarity with the subject3) a figure of speech that emphasizes the inexpressibility of a thing, idea, or feeling by stating that words cannot express it5) a figure of speech in which a speaker deliberates or appears to be in doubt about a question9) a figure of speech where a word is used in direct opposition to its usual meaning12) the repetition of same sounds usually initial consonants or stressed syllables13) a cowardly but boastful man, a stock character, empty boasting braggart15) omitting conecting words like conjunctions16) the nature of and perception of beauty especially in the arts, artistic taste17) a rhetorical repetition where the same word is repeated usually at the beginning of a successive line19) words that serve as a contrast or opposition of ideas usually by a balance of clauses Across: 1) a rhetorical device in which a speaker breaks off in the middle of a sentence, usually indicating strong emotion that makes the speaker unable or unwilling to continue4) a kind of drama in which disturbing or sinister subjects like death, or disease or war are treated with bitter amusement to offend or shock6) illustration of an idea by using a more familiar idea that is similar or parallel7) a statement which highlights a general principle by condensing wisdom into a few words8) a story or vision image with a second partially hidden meaning10) lavishlly ornate style as in art or writing11) a figure of speech that makes a pun by repeating the same word or two words sounding alike, but with differing senses14) a repetition in which a word or phrase appears both at the end of one clause, sentence, or stanza and at the beginning of the next, linking the two16) greek word for recognition or discovery used by aristotle in his poetics, the turnin point in a drama where a character, usually the protagonist, recognizes the true state of affairs when he has previously been wrong or ignorant of the situation18) repetition of a vowel sound20) a rhetorical figure in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person or an inanimate object21) extravagant diction or wording that is inappropriate for the subject-exaggeration22) a symbol, theme, setting, character-type that recurs in different times and places in literature suggesting that it is representative of human experiences23) an abrupt lapse from growing intensity to trivial things, seems ridiculous or ludicrous, disappoints, doesn't meet expectations
 

 

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