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