Literary Devices AP Latin Flashcards

9712304237	alliteration	repetition of the same letter or sound, usually at the beginning of a series of words	0
9712304238	anaphora	repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive clauses	1
9712304239	apostrophe	sudden break from the previous narrative for an address, in the second person, of some person or object, absent or present	2
9712304240	asyndeton	omission of conjunctions	3
9712304241	chiasmus	arrangement of words in a mirroring, or ABBA, pattern, found most often with pairs of nouns and adjectives	4
9712304243	enjambment	continuation of a unit of thought beyond the end of one verse and into the first few feet of the next	5
9712304244	hyperbaton	distanced placement of two words which are logically meant to be understood together	6
9712304245	hyperbole	exaggeration for rhetorical effect	7
9712304246	litotes	understatement, often enhanced by the use of the negative	8
9712304247	metaphor	implied comparison achieved through a figurative use of words; the word is used not in its literal sense, but in one analogous to it	9
9712304248	metonymy	substitution of one word for another which it suggests	10
9712304249	onomatopoeia	use of words of which the sound suggests the sense	11
9712304250	personification	attribution of personality to an impersonal thing	12
9712304251	polysyndeton	overabundance of conjunctions	13
9712304252	rhetorical question	figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked in order to make a point and without the expectation of a reply	14
9712304253	simile	explicit comparison between two things using 'like' or 'as'	15
9712304254	synchesis	interlocking word order; abAB	16
9712304255	tmesis	separation into two parts of a word normally written as one, often for a visual effect	17