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31
Language - Latin
10th Grade
06/01/2013

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Term
anastrophe
Definition
preposition before subject
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alliteration
Definition
repetition of the same sound
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anaphora
Definition
word repetition
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aposiopesis
Definition
failure to complete a sentence
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apostrophe
Definition
adress of an absent person or an abstraction
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asyndeton
Definition
no conjunctions
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chiasmus
Definition
AABB order
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echphrasis
Definition
describing a place for transition
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ellipsis
Definition
ommision of understood words
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hendiadys
Definition
2 nouns connected by a conjuntion with the meanin g of one modeifed noun
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hyperboton
Definition
words out of order
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hysteron proteron
Definition
reversal of the chronological order in order to put more important ideas first
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interlocked order aka synchysis
Definition
ABAB, emphisizes close association
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irony
Definition
words contrary to situation
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litores
Definition
assertion by denying the opposite
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metaphor
Definition
implied comparison
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metonymy
Definition
one noun used in place of another to aviod repetition
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onomatopoeia
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sound=word
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oxymoron aka pardox
Definition
contradictory words
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personificiation
Definition
inanimate objects as human
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pleonasm
Definition
use of unnecessary words
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polysyndeton
Definition
extra conjuncitons
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prolepsis
Definition
use of a word before it si appropriate in the context
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praetertio
Definition
saying q one is not going to mention something, therefore mentioning it
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prosopopoeia
Definition
impersonification of a charcter, imitating style of speaking
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simile
Definition
quasi, velut, ut, etc
comparison
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synecdoche
Definition
part for the whole
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tmesis
Definition
splitting of a word by intergecting another word or phase inbetween
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transferred epithet
Definition
transfer of a descriptive word to another noun
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tricolon crecens
Definition
3 parts, getting bigger
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zeugma
Definition
use of a verb with 2 objects with each of whci the verb is used in a different sense
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