Advanced Rhetorical Devices Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• anaphora: "it was outrageous. it was irresponsible. it was criminally negligent." (crichton 43)
• epistrophe: "a government of the people, by the people, and for the people."
• antithesis: "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times." (dickens 1)
• juxtaposition: the lavish ballroom stood silent beside the boarded-up homes across the street.
• asyndeton: the bills were piling up: gas, water, electricity, internet, rent.
• polysyndeton: with all the buying and the spending and the splurging, tony quickly ran out of money.
• chiasmus: "time is money; money is time."
• parallelism: "seek justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with your god." (micah 6:8)
• colloquialism: "she's just not that into you, man!"
• idiom: seeing that her debate opponent was on the ropes, tana launched a strong rebuttal.
• aphorism: "haste makes waste." - nicholas udall
• ellipsis: some citizens supported the decision; others, not so much.
• syllepsis: in one powerful swing, rodriguez crushed a 500-foot home run and the pitcher's confidence.
• euphemism: "i know you love this job, but i have to let you go."
• hyperbole: we had to wait for an eternity for the dmv line to move.
• litotes: as a teacher, mr. h isn't too bad.
• metonymy: in the british empire, all colonies were subject to the crown.
• synecdoche: there are too many mouths to feed.
• oxymoron: there was a deafening silence in the room.
• paradox: to preserve a free society, we need governments to impose rules