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