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Language - Latin
12th Grade
01/06/2008

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Alliteration
Definition
repetition of the same sound at the beginning of two or more consecutive words, or of words near one another
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Alliteration
Definition
funestaque flamma (death and flame)
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Anaphora
Definition
repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses
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Anaphora
Definition
Ubi sunt vires, ubi cognita virtus? (Where is your strength, where is that well known courage?)
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Anastrophe
Definition
inversion of the usual order of words
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Anastrophe
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urbem circum (as opposed to the common "circum urbem")
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Antithesis
Definition
opposition or contrast of ideas emphasized by the positions of the contrasting words
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Antithesis
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acer bello, serenus pace (fierce in war, calm in peace)
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Asyndeton
Definition
omission of conjunctions which ordinarily join coordinate words or clauses
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Asyndeton
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vidit Turnus, videre Ausonii (Turnus saw, the Ausonians saw)
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Chiasmus
Definition
in the second half of a pair of similar expressions, an inversion of the order of the first half
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Chiasmus
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pulcher corpore oculis maestus (handsome of body, but with eyes saddened)
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Climax
Definition
an arrangement in which a number of ideas are so placed that each succeeding one rises above the other in force
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Climax
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Eum non amo, eum despicioque, immo etiam eum odi. (I do not like him, I look down on him, indeed I even despise him.)
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Euphemism
Definition
substitution of a mild or inoffensive expression for one that may offend
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Euphemism
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Eumenides ("the Well-wishers," alias the Furies)
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Hendiadys
Definition
expression of an idea by two nouns connected by and instead of a noun and a modifier
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Hendiadys
Definition
vim et manus (violent hands)
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Hyperbole
Definition
intense exaggeration
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Hyperbole
Definition
Gemitum ad sidera tollunt. (They raised their groans to the stars.)
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Hysteron proteron
Definition
reversal of the logical sequence of events
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Hysteron proteron
Definition
Moriamur et in media arma ruamus. (Let us die and let us rush into the midst of the arms.)
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Irony
Definition
sort of ridicule or light sarcasm, the intended implication of which is the opposite of the literal sense of the words
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Irony
Definition
Sed Brutus honestus vir est! lolz! (But Brutus is an honorable man! lolz!)
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Litotes
Definition
expression of an idea by the denial of its opposite
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Litotes
Definition
haud secus (not at all otherwise, just so)
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Metaphor
Definition
a comparison without the use of like or as
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Metaphor
Definition
Turnus, leo ferox Rutulorum (Turnus, savage lion of the Rutulians)
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Metonymy
Definition
the use of one word for another which it suggests
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Metonymy
Definition
Bacchus (god of wine) meaning "wine"
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
the formation of words in imitation of natural sounds
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
ululatus (wailing)
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Oxymoron
Definition
a combination of contradictory or incongruous words
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Oxymoron
Definition
Patria tacita loquitur. (Your country speaks, though silently.)
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Personification
Definition
the representation of inanimate objects or abstract ideas with personal attributes
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Personification
Definition
Flumen Tiber naves miratur. (The Tiber River gazes at the ships in wonderment.)
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Pleonasm
Definition
unnecessary fullness of expression
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Pleonasm
Definition
atra nox (black night)
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Polysyndeton
Definition
frequent repetition of the connective in successive words, phrases or clauses
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Polysyndeton
Definition
cucurrerunt et clamaverunt et ululaverunt et cum gaudio saluerunt. (They ran and they shouted and the wailed and the jumped for joy.)
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Praeteritio Paraleipsis
Definition
pretense of omitting something in order to emphasize it
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Praeteritio Paraleipsis
Definition
de caede civium non dico. (I am not speaking of the slaughtered citizens.)
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Prolepsis
Definition
use of an expression before it is logically appropriate
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Prolepsis
Definition
puppes submersas obruerunt. (They overwhelmed the submerged ships.)
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Simile
Definition
comparison with the use of like or as
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Synecdoche
Definition
species of metonymy in which a part of an object is used to represent the entire object
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Synecdoche
Definition
puppis (stern) meaning "ship"
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Synchysis
Definition
interlocked word arrangement
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Synchysis
Definition

clamorque virum clangorque tubarum (shouts of the men and din of the trumpets)

 

 

hint: nom. gen., nom. gen.

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Tautology
Definition
redundancy consisting of needless repetition of meaning in other words
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Tautology
Definition
oculis visus (seen with the eyes)
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Tmesis
Definition
separation of parts of a compound word by one or more words
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Tmesis
Definition
quae me cumque terrae (whatever lands {call} me)
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Zeugma
Definition
use of a verb with two or more words, to only one of which it applies
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Zeugma
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Vinum et frumentum biberunt. (They drank the wine and devoured the grain.)
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