Catullus Literary Devices

Question 1

Hyperbaton

Answer 1

When adjective and a noun are separated at opposite poles of a line to frame it

Question 2

Polyptoton

Answer 2

Repetition of a word but with many case endings

Question 3

Tricolon Crescens

Answer 3

Three phrases or words increasing in length and/or intensity

Question 4

Chiasmus

Answer 4

Pattern of word order changed from everyday speech to an ABBA pattern

Question 5

Anaphora

Answer 5

Repetition at the begining

Question 6

Epiphora

Answer 6

Repetition at the end

Question 7

Assonance

Answer 7

Repetition of the sounds at the ends of words

Question 8

Syncope

Answer 8

When a verb is shortened in poetry to fit the syllable scheme

Question 9

Systole

Answer 9

When a macron is not used when it should be (rhythmic)

Question 10

Diastole

Answer 10

When a macron is added where it isn’t needed (needed for rhyme scheme)

Question 11

Onomatopoeia

Answer 11

When a word sounds like what it means

Question 12

Figure Etymologica

Answer 12

When two words come from the same root

Question 13

Hiatus

Answer 13

A gap between two words to insure a correct number of syllables

Question 14

Elision

Answer 14

When two new boring words squish together because one starts with a vowel and one ends with one

Question 15

Diminutive

Answer 15

A version of a word that. Hanged meaning to a lesser meaning

ex. turgidulus, ocellus

Question 16

Liquid sounds

Answer 16

Sounds made with the tongue

Question 17

Nasal sounds

Answer 17

Sounds made with the nose

Question 18

Elegiac couplet

Answer 18

Second line is shorted and ends abruptly, typical for sad and love poetry

Question 19

Semi-vocalis

Answer 19

Sounds like M and N which are I between a consonant and a vowel

Question 20

Asyndeton

Answer 20

Lack of conjunctions, no and when connecting nouns in a list, piling up effect

Question 21

Polysyndetron

Answer 21

Too many conjunctions. And….and….and….