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AP Latin Rhetorical Figures
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Answer 36 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. An abrupt failure to complete a sentence.
Simile
Aposiopesis
Assonance
Anastrophe
2. Three like phrases in a row - three relative clauses - three prep clauses - etc
Transferred Epithet
Apostrophe
Tricolon Trescens
Metonomy
3. An address to some one or thing not present.
Litotes
Anastrophe
Assonance
Apostrophe
4. Double negative - understatement
Litotes
Apostrophe
Hendiadys
Ecphrasis
5. Using words in context where the meaning is contrary to the situation
Tmesis
Praeteritio
Irony
Transferred Epithet
6. Happens in poetry. Closely related words are split between one line and the next - often used by a poet to bind a poem together. It also adds the benefit of a pause before the completion of a thought.
Enjambment/Enjambement
Oxymoron
Apostrophe
Zeugma
7. Use of words whose sound suggest the sense
Hyberbole
Onomatopoeia
Metonomy
Propsopopoeia
8. Use of excessive conjunctions
Polysyndaton
Simile
Hendiadys
Chiasmus
9. Joining of dissimilar words in a unit
Metonomy
Zeugma
Polyptoton
Enjambment/Enjambement
10. Implied comparison
Metaphor
Anaphora
Irony
Prolepsis
11. Omission of one or more words necessary to the sense.
Metaphor
Pleonasm
Asyndaton
Elipsis
12. Separation of parts of a compund word
Prolepsis
Anaphora
Tmesis
Personification
13. Repitition of sounds - usually vowel sounds.
Polysyndaton
Assonance
Praeteritio
Pleonasm
14. When the object of a preposition precedes the preposition.
Hendiadys
Anastrophe
Metaphor
Personification
15. An omission of conjunctions in a series
Assonance
Propsopopoeia
Onomatopoeia
Asyndaton
16. Contradictory words in the same phrase
Hysteron Proteron
Metonomy
Hyberbole
Oxymoron
17. A formal description - often used in epic to make a transition to a new scene
Anaphora
Ecphrasis
Metaphor
Personification
18. Use of words of same or similar meaning
Simile
Pleonasm
Tricolon Trescens
Synchysis
19. Repitition of the same sounds in two or more words. usually applies to consonants and accented initial vowels.
Alliteration
Synedoche
Ecphrasis
Simile
20. Assigning inanimate objects human qualities
Oxymoron
Praeteritio
Assonance
Personification
21. Repitition of a word - usually at the begining of a clause or phrase. Used for emphasis.
Simile
Hyberbole
Anaphora
Allegory
22. A narrative in which abstract ideas (love - rumor - knowledge) figure as circumstances or persons usually to enforce a deeper moral truth
Propsopopoeia
Allegory
Polyptoton
Hendiadys
23. Interlocking word order ABAB
Metaphor
Metonomy
Synchysis
Anastrophe
24. An exageration without like or as
Metaphor
Pleonasm
Hyberbole
Synedoche
25. Saying what one says will not be said
Assonance
Elipsis
Praeteritio
Onomatopoeia
26. Repitition of key word with slight change to form
Polyptoton
Pleonasm
Prolepsis
Tricolon Trescens
27. Assumption of another persons character
Propsopopoeia
Hysteron Proteron
Metaphor
Prolepsis
28. Use of one closely conected noun in place of another
Propsopopoeia
Metonomy
Personification
Ecphrasis
29. Comparison using 'like' or 'as'
Pleonasm
Allegory
Aposiopesis
Simile
30. An inversion of the natural order of speech(reversal of logical word order)
Hysteron Proteron
Metonomy
Zeugma
Aposiopesis
31. Substituting part for the whole
Synedoche
Hendiadys
Litotes
Oxymoron
32. When words that belong together naturally are separated for effect.
Metaphor
Hyperbaton
Elipsis
Metonomy
33. The expression of an idea using two nouns joined with an 'and' but translated 'Of'
Hendiadys
Ecphrasis
Transferred Epithet
Propsopopoeia
34. Arrangement of words in ABBA order.
Assonance
Hendiadys
Chiasmus
Tricolon Trescens
35. Use of a word before it is appropriate; leaves the reader hanging until the thought is completed (usually a verb comes between an adjective and the noun it modifies)
Prolepsis
Transferred Epithet
Propsopopoeia
Chiasmus
36. Attributing some characteristic of one thing to another thing
Hysteron Proteron
Transferred Epithet
Synchysis
Prolepsis