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