Rhetorical Strategies Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• parody : a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule
• pedantic : an adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish.
• anaphora : one of the devices of repetition, in which the same expression is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences
• synecdoche : a type of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole
• understatement : presents something as less significant than it is.
• enumeratio : figure of amplific ation in which a subject is divided into constituent parts or details, and may include a listing of causes, effects, problems, solutions, conditions, and consequences
• euph emism : a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept.
• antecedent : the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun
• undertone : an attitude that may lie under the ostensible tone of the piece
• syllogism : a deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion.
• litotes : a figure of thought in which a point is affirmed by negating its opposite.
• satire : a work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule.
• paradox : a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity.
• polysyndeton : figure of addition and emphasis which intentionally employs a series of conjunctions not normally found in successive words, phrases or clauses
• diacope : repetition of a word or phrase after an intervening word or phrase
• apostrophe : a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love
• metonymy : a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it.
• asyndeton : consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses.
• chiasmus : a figure of speech in which two successive phrases or clauses are parallel in syntax, but reverse the order of the analogous words.
• invective : an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attach using srong, abusive language.