Types of Figurative Language Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• paradox: it refers to the use of concepts or ideas that are contradictory to one another, yet, when placed together hold significant value on several levels.
• allusion: an implied or indirect reference to a person, place, thing, historical, cultural, literary, political, event, mythological, scientific with significance.
• litotes: a statement is used to affirm a positive sentiment.
• caesura : a pause that occurs within a line of poetry that is marked with a punctuation.
• metaphor : a way of comparing two unlike things does not use like or as.
• deus ex machina : it refers to the incidence where the implausible concept or character is brought into the story in order to resolve the conflict and to bring about a pleasing solution.
• personification: it projects human qualities onto inanimate objects, or perhaps animals or natural elements.
• metonymy : substitution for another word that it is closely associated with.
• simile : it compares two separate concepts using a clear connecting word such as "like" or "as".
• alliteration: the repetition or the use of the same consonant letter or sound.
• synecdoche: it uses one part to refer to the whole, or the whole to refer to the part.
• onomatopoeia : it is the use of descriptive words that sound or mimic the noise they are describing.
• irony : it is the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning.
• analogy: it creates a comparison by showing how to seemingly different entities are alike, along with illustrating a larger point due to their commonalities.
• allegory: a literary device that uses symbolic characters, settings, and actions to convey a message or moral lesson.
• oxymoron: words or phrases in which contradictory or opposite terms are used together.
• pun: a form of figurative language which creates a play on words.
• idiom: it is used to convey a meaning different from the literal interpretation of the individual words.