Fill in the blanks for the following crossword puzzle clues related to literary devices and parts of speech.

Here are the answers to the crossword puzzle:

Across

• 3. She has a heart of gold. This is a figure of speech where a quality is attributed to something without using "like" or "as".

  • Answer: METAPHOR

• 5. Doing word. A word that describes an action, state, or occurrence.

  • Answer: VERB

• 6. He is as sly as a fox. This is a figure of speech that directly compares two different things using "like" or "as".

  • Answer: SIMILE

• 8. She sells sea shells. This is a literary device where words that are close together begin with the same sound.

  • Answer: ALLITERATION

• 9. The thieves robbed the police station. The verb "robbed" in this sentence takes a direct object ("the police station"). A verb that takes a direct object is called a transitive verb.

  • Answer: TRANSITIVE

• 12. Describe a noun. A word that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun.

  • Answer: ADJECTIVE

• 13. 'Boo hoo!' she sobbed. This is a word that imitates the natural sounds of something.

  • Answer: ONOMATOPOEIA

• 14. Joining words (and, but). Words used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause.

  • Answer: CONJUNCTION

Down

• 1. Describes a verb. A word that modifies a verb, an adjective, another adverb, or an entire sentence.

  • Answer: ADVERB

• 2. I am so hungry I could eat a horse. This is a figure of speech involving exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

  • Answer: HYPERBOLE

• 4. The flowers dance in the breeze. This is a figure of speech where human qualities or actions are attributed to inanimate objects or animals.

  • Answer: PERSONIFICATION

• 7. The, a, an are examples of _____. These are words that define whether something is specific or unspecific.

  • Answer: ARTICLES

• 10. These words describe the position of things. Words that show the relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence, often indicating position, direction, or time.

  • Answer: PREPOSITIONS

• 11. Can be used in the place of a noun (she, he, it). A word that can function as a noun phrase and refers to a participant in the discourse (e.g., I, you) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it, this).

  • Answer: PRONOUN

• 15. Naming words are called _____. A word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things (common noun), or to name a particular one of these (proper noun).

  • Answer: NOUNS