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Latin poetic devices
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A long narrative which has a metaphorical meaning as well as a literal one | Allegory |
| Repitition of initial sounds (usually consonantal) | Alliteration |
| Repitition of the same word in the same position of a phrase or clause | Anaphora |
| an opposition of ideas in a balanced grammatical structure | Antithesis |
| Addressing an absent person or inanimate object. | Apostrophe |
| usage of similar sounds in a series of words(usually vowels) | Assonance |
| An arrangement of words in an ABBA pattern | Chiasmus |
| omission of a word, or words, necessary to a phrase or sentence. | Ellipsis |
| a line which continues into the next without a grammatical break | Enjambment |
| the usage of TWO nouns connected by a conjunction to express ONE idea | Hendiadys |
| A marked separation of a noun and modifier | Hyperbaton |
| An obvious exaggeration | Hyperbole |
| A reversal of the natural order of ideas | Hysteron Proteron |
| The arrangement of words in an ABAB pattern | Synchesis |
| A double negative. Affirming something by stating its opposite with a negative | Litotes |
| An implied comparison between two things | Metaphor |
| The use of metaphorical language. Representing something with its symbol | Metomymy |
| Use of sounds that reflect meaning | Onomatopoeia |
| Usage of seemingly contradictory words in the same phrase | Oxymoron |
| The treatment of an inanimate object as a person | Personification |
| Usage of unnecessary and additional words to express an idea | Pleonasm |
| Usage of the same word in different forms in the same sentence | Polyptoton |
| Excessive usage of conjunctions | Polysyndeton |
| A comparison between two things using velut, ut, or sic | Simile |
| Using a part to represent a whole | Synechdoche |
| three examples in an ascending order of importance | Tricolon crescendo |
| Linking two words by a verb to create both a literal and metaphorical meaning | Zeugma |
| Placing the object of a preposition before rather than after that preposition's occurrence in the line | Anastrophe |
| the repetition of the same consonantal sound medially or finally | Consonance |
| A series of words which end in the same sounds | Homeoteleuton |
| A question which does not expect an answer | Rhetorical Question |
| The contraction of words such as the genitive plural of the second declension and the third person plural of the perfect indicative active | Syncopation or Syncope |
| lack of conjunctions | Asyndeton |
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