A Gripping Start

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. The act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience (6)
  2. 10. The word class that qualifies nouns (plural) (10)
  3. 11. The ability to form mental ___ of things or events (7)
  4. 12. Using words that imitate the sound they denote (12)
  5. 13. A sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply (8)

Down

  1. 1. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (6)
  2. 2. The word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence (plural) (5)
  3. 3. The state of being emotionally aroused and worked up (10)
  4. 5. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse (12)
  5. 6. Difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze (6)
  6. 7. A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally (8)
  7. 8. A short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage (9)
  8. 9. An account of an amusing incident (5)