AP Latin- Literary Devices

Addressing a person who is not present

ABBA arrangement of words

Use of words that sound like their meaning

Use of two nouns together to express a noun modified by an adjective

Omission of words

Repetition of word/phrase for emphasis, usually at the beginning of successive phrases/clauses

Comparison using a word like sicut, similis, velut

Attribution of human characteristics to something not human

Repetition of either the same word in different forms.

Omission of conjunctions

Use of part to express a whole

Use of apparent contradiction

Combination of three elements, increasing in size

Postponing to the next line a significant word related to the previous line. A run-on line.

An adjective that agrees grammatically with 1 noun but shares its meaning with another noun

The separation of a compound word into two parts

The expression of something contrary to what is intended.

Expression of meaning through an image

ABAB arrangement of words

Use of negative to express a strong positive

Substitution of one word for another that is suggests

Placing first what the reader might expect to come last

Repetition of the same letter at the beginning of words or syllables.

Use of superfluous words

Inversion of usual word order. Enables writer to place words in framing position for emphasis.

Use of one word in two different senses simultaneously

A narrative in which abstract ideas figure as circumstances or persons

Use of many conjunctions

A digression vividly describing a new place, object, or event.

Breaking off in the middle of a sentence, where the speaker is overwhelmed with emotion.

Exaggeration

Use of word sooner than it would logically appear