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