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AP Latin Literary Devices part I
AP Latin Literary Devices part I
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some fun examples of a few literary devices
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the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow.
tmesis
alliteration
assonance
pathetic fallacy
2
Putin's great! But, you know, sometimes he can be a bit rude. Like one time at a party he...
aposiopesis
apostrophe
ecphrasis
hendiadys
3
Fred's friends fried Fritos for Friday's fiesta.
euphemism
obliteration
onomatopoeia
alliteration
4
You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit.
double entendre
enjambment
pleonasm
zeugma/syllepsis
5
The cat purred and the lion roared.
heniadys
euphemism
apostophe
onomatapeoia
6
I have a history exam and a physics lab and a math quiz and my Latin AP exam all on Friday!
polysyndeton
polybutylene
simile
synizesis
7
The BIg Apple, MoTown, The Big Easy, City of Angles, The Windy City, etc.
pathetic fallacy
metonymy
zeugma
hyperbole
8
cum tacent clamant
(though they be silent they scream)
hyperbaton
polybaton
oxymoron
hendiadys
9
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Transferred epithet/enallage
onomataopoeia
metonymy
hysteron proteron
10
Should it ever succeed in seceding, Texas would truly be the "lonely" star state.
cytoplasmaphora
epiphora
anaphora
pathetic fallacy
11
I got the moves like Jagger; I got the moves like Jagger; I got the mooooooooooves like Jagger.
transferred epithet
pathetic fallacy
enjambment
tricolon crescens
12
When I was a child,I spoke as a child,I understood as a child, thought as a child. (1Cor 13:11)
apostrophe
anastrophe
epistrophe
anaphora
13
We don't graduate students of Latin; we produce the next step in evolution: Homo Latinitatis.
pathetic fallacy
aletheia
hyperbole
aphorism
14
It is a tale told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury
, signifying nothing. (MacBeth)
anacoluthon
epistrophe
enjambement
hendiadys
15
Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in
forgetful snow
(TS Elliot)
tricolon crescens
hyperbaton
hypallage
synecdoche
16
It was no small mishap that occurred that day on the oil rig.
zeugma
litotes
asyndeton
elipsis
17
Borrowing a '7th' foot from the next line in order to complete a thought in hexameter.
caesura
enjambement
hperbaton
enallage
18
Abso-freakin-lutely!
synizesis
zeugma
asyndeton
tmesis
19
On that day, there was no laughter, no joy, no happiness to be found.
anaphora
all of the above
asyndeton
tricolon crescens
20
I came, I saw, I conquered.
hiatus
imperion
asyndeton
caesura
21
The hissing of the slithering snake
synizesis
asyndeton
alliteration
synecdoche
22
"Life moves pretty fast..." (Ferris quote from 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off')
hyperbole
apostophe
malpropism
solecism
23
Three shall be the number of thy counting, and the number of thy counting shall be three.
ecphrasis
chiasmus
enjambment
alliteration
24
Your poor performance caused the very walls of this school to weep.
hysteron proteron
pathetic fallacy
hyperbole
ecphrasis
25
Of one that loved not wisely, but too well. (Othello)
hysteron proteron
ekphrasis
pathetic fallacy
hamartia
26
When you look at the dark side, careful you must be.
epanalepsis
prolepsis
hyperbaton
anastrophe
27
Here is Tre and
his ride
.
Time to un-pimp the auto.
hyperphora
sarcasm
synecdoche
hyperbole
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Tis but a scratch. Just a flesh wound. I've had worse.
transferred epithet
hyperbole
understatement
litotes