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Literary Devices
Latin 3, 4H, 4AP
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds |
| onomatopoeia | word sounds like its meaning |
| anaphora | repetition of non-conjunction word to show emphasis |
| asyndeton | lack of conjunctions |
| chiasmus | an ABBA pattern of words |
| enjambment | break in a line by a period, colon, or semicolon |
| hyperbaton | the separation of two words to show actual separation in a sentence |
| polysyndeton | the repetition of conjunctions to show emphasis |
| synchesis | an ABAB pattern of words |
| tmesis | the breaking of a compound verb into two separate parts |
| hyperbole | extreme exaggeration |
| metaphor | comparison of two things without the words "like" or "as" |
| metonymy | substitution of a word for a similar word |
| personification | giving human qualities to non-human things |
| simile | comparison of two things using "like" or "as" |
| transferred epithet | transferred from the word it strictly belongs to another word connected with it in thought |
| apostrophe | talking to someone as if they are present or still alive |
| litotes | the use of negative to accentuate the positive |
| rhetorical question | anticipates no real answer |