Across:

3. A combination of speech-sounds which aims at imitating sounds produced in nature, by things, by people and by animals. 5. The writing of a word with its first letter as a majuscule (upper case letter) and the remaining letters in minuscules (lower case letters). 7. A stylistic device, or literary technique, in which successive words (more strictly, stressed syllables) begin with the same consonant sound or letter. 8. The peculiarity of rhymes of this type is that the combination of words is made to sound like one word. 10. The intentional violation of the graphical shape of a word (or word combination) used to reflect its authentic pronunciation. 12. This type refers to cursive typefaces based on a stylized form of calligraphic handwriting. 13. The repetition of identical or similar terminal sound combinations of words.

down:

1. Deliberate repetition of the same letter or letters within a written word to render the peculiarities of the speaker’s utterance. 2. The phenomenon when a word is broken in two or more parts by the punctuation mark (-). 4. The repetition of vowel sounds, usually in stressed syllables within a short passage of verse or prose. 6. The effect of ease, comfort in pronouncing & hearing. 9. A flow, movement, procedure, etc., characterized by basically regular recurrence of elements or features, as beat, or accent, in alternation with opposite or different elements of features. 11. The thick type used to highlight certain keywords that are important to the subject of the text, for easy visual scanning of text.

Crossword 6. Serpentine

1. The interplay between the logical and nominal meaning of a word. 2. A combination of two words in which the meanings of the two clash, being opposite in sense. 3. Transference of some quality from one object to another. 4. Words that we use when we express our feelings strongly and which exist in language as conventional symbols of human emotions. 5. A stylistic device which denotes the use of a longer phrasing in a place of a possible shorter and plainer form of expression. 6. A stylistic device which is based on the interplay of emotive and logical meaning in an attributive word, phrase or even sentence used to give an individual perception and evaluation of some features or properties of the object. 7. The meaning of the stylistic device that arises from the context. 8. An expression that has become hackneyed and trite and has lost its originality. 9. A stylistic device which is based on the interaction of two well-known meanings of a word or phrase. 10. The idea expressed in that kind of epithet is to a certain extent inherent in the concept of the object. 11. This meaning of the word is devoid of any contextual colouring. 12. Metaphors which are commonly used in speech and sometimes are even fixed in dictionaries as expressive means of the language. 13. An indirect reference to a historical, literary, mythological, biblical fact or to a fact of everyday life made in the course of speaking or writing. 14. Epithets which are ordinary logical attributes generally describing the state of a human being, but made to refer to an inanimate object. 15. Metaphors which are absolutely unexpected and quite unpredictable. 16. A repetition of a phrase or statement from a book, speech, etc. 17. The intensification of some one feature of the concept used to characterize one object by bringing it into contact with another one belonging to a different class. 18. A stylistic device which is based on some kind of association connecting the two concepts which the dictionary and contextual meanings represent. 19. A word or phrase used to replace an unpleasant word or expression by a conventionally more acceptable one. 20. The use of a word in the same grammatical but different semantic relations to two adjacent words in the context, the semantic relations being, on the one hand, literal, and, transferred, on the other. 21. A stylistic device based on the simultaneous realization of two logical meanings – dictionary and contextual, but the two meanings stand in opposition to each other. 22. Terse, witty, pointed statements that show the ingenious turn of mind of the originator. 23. Epithets which are composed of two nouns linked in an of-phrase. 24. A deliberate overstatement or exaggeration of a feature essential to the object or phenomenon.