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