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12 Cards in this Set
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repetition of consonant sound at the beginning of a word
"miserunt mihi muneri Fabullus." |
alliteration
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address of an absent person or an abstraction
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apostrophe
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the absence of connectives between words, clauses, phrases; lack of conjunctions
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asyndeton
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arrangement of words, usually adjectives and nouns, in the patter A B B A
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chiasmus
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repetition of consonant sound not at the beginning of a word
"sonitu suopte tintinant aures, gemina teguntur lumina nocte" |
consonance
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the running over of a sentence from one verse or couplet into another so that closely related words falls in different lines
"daret ut catenis Fatale monstrum." |
enjambement
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the use of 2 words with very similar meaning in order to assert one idea emphatically
"molemque et montes" |
hendiadys
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an arrangement of pairs of words which forms the pattern A B A B
"minister vetuli puer Falerni" |
interlocking word order/synchesis
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the assertion of something by denying its opposite
"non sane illepidum neque invenustum" = not unadmirable or uncharming" |
litotes
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the excessive use of connectives/conjunctions
"eurusque Notusque ruunt creberque" |
polysyndeton
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grouping adjectives, nouns, phrases, or clauses in threes
"narrantem loca, facta, nationes" |
tricolon
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one word used simultaneously in both a literal and figurative way
et me recuravi otioque et urtica = recuravi means to heal emotionally by the use of otio, and to heal physically by the use of urtica |
zeugma
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