Rhetorical Devices Crossword Puzzle
QUESTIONS LIST: rhetorical question : a statement made in the form of a question with no expectation of an answer, metaphor : a type of figure of speech that compares one thing to another unlike thing, metonymy : a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated, zeugma : the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words usually in such a manner that it applies to each in a different sense or makes sense with only one, asyndeton : omission of the conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words or clauses of words, clauses, or sentences, parallelism : several parts of a sentence or several sentences expressed in similar grammatical form to show that the ideas are equal in importance. can add balance, rhythm and emphasis to ideas, antithesis : the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences, irony : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning, synecdoche : is a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole, allusion : references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature.