Catullus Literary Devices Flashcards by Alexander Ament

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Anaphora

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repetition of words or phrases

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Anastrophe

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reversal of normal word order

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Antithesis

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sharp contrast of words

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Apostrophe

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addressing some person or personified thing

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Asyndeton

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omission of conjunctions

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Chiasmus

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ABBA order

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Hendiadys

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two nouns, one idea

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Homoioteleuton

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recurrence of similar endings

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Synchysis

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ABAB order

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Litotes

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double negative

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Metonymy

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one word employed to suggest another

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Onomatopoeia

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use of words to imitate a sound

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Personification

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giving human traits to nonhuman things

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Polyptoton

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same words, different endings

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Polysyndeton

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many conjunctions

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Synecdoche

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part is named in place of an entire object

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Tmesis

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separation of a compound word into its parts

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Transferred Epithet

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an adjective to one noun when it properly applies to another

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Tricolon

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a climactic series of three