Figurative Language

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Across 3. Saying less that one means 4. Words that express the five senses 6. Underlying meaning/implicit meaning 8. Using something to represent something else 10. Obvious exaggeration 12. The close repetition of the same end consonants 13. Words that start with the same sound 14. Words that sound like the words they make 15. A mode of expression through words 17. An artistic device 18. Using something closely related to the actual thing meant 19. Overused phrase or saying 20. Comparing two unlike objects using like or as

Down 1. Giving human characteristics to animals and other objects 2. Apparent paradox achieved by the juxtapostion of words which contradict one another 5. Comparing two unlike objects 7. Repitition of the same sound in words close to each other 9. Addressing someone absent or dead as if they were alive 11. Dictionary Definition 16. Regular or progressive pattern of recurrent accents in the flow of a poem

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