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