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This 21-word language features word search covers literary devices and rhetorical techniques for Grades 9–12. Hidden words include alliteration, metaphor, personification, and hyperbole, spanning figures of speech, sound devices, and semantic strategies. Use it during a literary analysis unit, as a vocabulary review before creative writing, or as a template for language-study puzzles.

Subject:
English / Language Arts
Topic:
Vocabulary
Grade Level:
9th – 12th Grades
Updated June 2026

Word List

  • ALLITERATION
  • ANAPHORA
  • CONCEPTOFTIME
  • EMOTIVELANGUAGE
  • HYPERBOLE
  • JUXTAPOSITION
  • LISTING
  • MATHEMATICALLANGUAGE
  • METAPHOR
  • ONOMATOPOEIA
  • OXYMORON
  • PATHETICFALACY
  • PERSONIFICATION
  • REPETITION
  • RHETORICALQUESTION
  • RULEOFTHREE
  • SEMANTICFIELDSENSORYLANGUAGE
  • SIBILANCE
  • SIMILE
  • SUPERLATIVE
  • ZOOMORPHISM

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