Figures of speech
6 7
9 10
11
12
Across
4. a short story that illustrates a
moral attitude
5. The use of words that imitate the
sounds associated with the objects
they refer to
8. An implied comparison between
two dissimilar things that have
something common
9. An inanimate object is endowed
with human qualities
11. When a word is repeated
multiple times within a phrase
12. Address of a usually absent
person or thing rhetorically
2 3
Down
1. The repetition of an initial
consonant sound.
2. Phrase whose meaning is
different from the meaning of its
individual words
3. A statement that appears to
contradict itself
6. An extravagant and exaggerated
statement
7. The use of words to convey the
opposite of their literal meaning
10. A stated comparison using "like"
or "as"
   Alliteration       Hyperbole       Irony       
Metaphor       Onomatopoeia       
Paradox       Personification       Simile       
Apostrophe       Parable       Anaphora       
Idiom