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