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