Using Figurative Language

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. A defamatory or abusive word or phrase (7)
  2. 6. Using words that imitate the sound they denote (12)
  3. 7. Address to an absent or imaginary person (10)
  4. 8. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn (5)
  5. 9. Passing reference or indirect mention (8)

Down

  1. 1. Conjoining contradictory terms (8)
  2. 2. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse (12)
  3. 3. A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally (8)
  4. 5. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people (5)