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