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Down: 1) The way an author chooses words, arranges them in sentences or in lines of dialogue or verse, and develops ideas and actions with description, imagery, and other literary techniques.2) A play on words.3) A reference to or echo of familiar expressions, persons or objects from a cultural tradition (esp. biblical, classical, proverbial).5) A figure of speech that addresses (talks to) a dead or non-present person, or an object.7) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.9) The literal or dictionary definition of a word.11) The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables.12) The use of one object or action to represent or suggest something else.13) Deliberate combination of seemingly contradictory (opposite) words.18) A humorous, mocking imitation of a literary work, sometimes sarcastic, but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation. Across: 2) A statement that seems untrue, that seems to contradict itself. example: "The poorest man is the richest, and the rich are poor."4) An idiom is an expression that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words.6) A figure of speech that directly compares two different things, usually by employing the words "like" or "as".8) The repetition of the sound of a vowel in nonrhyming stressed syllables.10) Making something that is a big deal seem not very important. It's often used for humor.14) Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.15) Language that appeals to the senses. Descriptions of people or objects stated in terms of our senses.16) The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning. 17) A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common.19) The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
 

 

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