All of them Flashcards
Syncope
Shortening a word to make it sound better
Periculum into periclum
Teucrum into Teucrorum
Legere into Legerunt
Zeugma
Applying in a different sense
John and his license expired
Enallage
Incorrect grammar
Chiasmus
Crossing
Fair is foul foul is fair
Marcus Iuliam improbus puellam
Asyndeton
Removal of conjunction (ā meaning away from)
Videt oculis <-> Videt cum oculis
Polysyndeton
Many conjunctions
John AND James AND Brown did this
Metonymy
Using an associated thing to talk about something indirectly
Vela dabant laet, in which vela means the boat
Ceres is the goddess of the harvest, but Ceres can mean all the grains and stuff
Synecdoche
Metonymy also (but using one part to show larger)
Vela dabant laet, in which vela means the boat
Personification
Neptune <-> Sea
Anapohora
Repeating conjunctions (but at start of sentence)
I want ….
I want ….
I want ….
Hendiadys
Nicely warm <-> Nice and warm
Synchysis
Scattering words to create bewilderment
Hyperbaton
Inversion of word order
Prolepsis
Foreshadowing (he knew he was cooked already)
Tmesis
Insertion of an extra word
Circum virum dare
Litotes
Not uncooked (double negation)
Anastrophe
Ana (turn up) strophe (line)
Mixing the word orders
Oxymoron
Silent Shout (Impossible contradiction )
Synchysis
Scattering words for bewilderment
Metaphor
Directly saying something is the other
Hyperbaton
Inversion of word order
Hyperbole
Exaggeration
Simile
Using a word to say “this is LIKE”
sicut, velut, idem est, tam, etc.
Transffered Epithet
Adjective is transferred to another noun that refers to the original one (memorable day=memorable time actually)
Polysyndeton
More conjunctions
Pleonasm
Using extra words to enrich
Temesiis
circum terga data (put stuff in between)
Apposition
Referring to the same thing (john=king etc.)
Apostrophe
Talking to someone else (oh god….)
Dative of Agent
Done by ….
Agendae sunt tibi
