Figurative Language Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• simile : a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
• metaphor : a comparison saying one thing is something else
• personification : the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
• idiom : a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words
• alliteration : the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
• oxymoron : a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
• hyperbole : exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
• allusion : an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
• onomatopoeia : the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named