AP Latin Rhetorical Terms, Figures of Speech, Metrical Devices – Flashcards
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alliteration
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the repetition of the same letter or sound
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anaphora
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the repetition of a word at the beginning of successive clauses
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anastrophe
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the inversion of the normal order of words
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aposiopesis
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a breaking off in the middle of a sentence and the syntax is never resumed
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apostrophe
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a sudden break from the previous narrative for an address
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asyndeton
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the omission of conjunctions
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chiasmus
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an arrangement of words in a mirroring ABBA pattern
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echphrasis
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an extended and elaborate description of artwork, buildings, etc
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ellipsis
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the omission of words that make a sentence grammatically correct
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enallage
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the transference of an epithet to a related word
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enjambment
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the continuation of a thought through the end of one verse into the next
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apanalepsis
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the repetition of a word for dramatic effect
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euphamism
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a watered-down version of the situation
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hendiadys
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the expression of an idea by connecting two nouns with a conjunction
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hiatus
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the avoidance in meter of elision between one word ending in a vowel and another beginning with a vowel
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hyperbaton
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the distanced placement of two words that are meant to be understood together
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hyperbole
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an exaggeration
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hysteron proteron
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the reversal of the natural or logical order of ideas
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litotes
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understatement
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metonymy
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the substitution of a word for another which it suggests
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onomatopoeia
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the use of words of which the sound suggests the sense
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pathetic fallacy
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the attribution of human emotion to inanimate objects
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pleonasm
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a fullness of expression
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polyptoton
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the repetition of a noun or pronoun in different cases at the beginning of successive phrases
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polysyndeton
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an overabundance of conjunctions
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rhetorical question
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a question that anticipates no real answer
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prolepsis
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references in the story to events that occur after the time period of the literature
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simile
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an explicit comparison between two different things
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synchysis
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interlocking word order
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synecdoche
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the use of a part for the whole or reverse
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synizesis
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where two contiguous vowels in a word are slurred
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tmesis
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the separation into two parts of a word usually written as one
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transferred epithet
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an epithet that has been transferred from its word to a related one
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tricolon crescens
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three parallel phrases, where the next one is at least one syllable longer than the last
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zeugma
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the joining of two words by a modifying or governing word which strictly applies to only one of them
