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