Literary & Rhetorical Devices Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• connotation : while home may refer to the actual building someone lives in, connotatively, it most often refers to family, comfort, and security.
• denotation : her use of the word “agony” means extreme physical or mental suffering.
• diction : when one is trying to speak formally, one may say "colleague" rather than "coworker".
• mood : at the end of the story, readers should feel joyful that rosa is healed and reunited with the narrator.
• motif : in the hate u give, starr repeatedly considers and reconsiders whether she should or could speak up about khalil.
• metaphor : if dreams, die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
• simile : keep love in your heart. a life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead
• alliteration : vainly i had sought to borrow from my books surcease of sorrow
• imagery : and the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain thrilled me
• hyperbole : ellard, you couldn’t catch a chipmunk if all its legs were broken and it was glued to the palm of your hand.
• understatement : saying “it is a bit nippy today.” to describe the temperature, which is 5 degrees below freezing.
• aposiopesis : “this is most unnerving, captain. the reason for having two missile keys is so that no one man may — ”
• asyndeton : “are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, shrunk to this little measure?”
• anaphora :“go back to mississippi, go back to alabama, go back to south carolina, go back to georgia, go back to louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.”
• conduplicatio: a new life starts for our country tomorrow, a life filled with hope and, i believe, a life that will be blessed with peace and progress."
• parallelism : the author writes, the reader dreams, the book transforms.