AP Latin Poetic Devices

metonymy
substituting a part to represent a whole

synchesis
ABAB word pattern

syncopation
shortening a word to fit meter

anachronism
a word that is out of place due to a different time period

anastrophe
reversal of word order in a prepositional phrase

anaphora
repetition of a word or phrase for emphasis

ellipsis
omission of a verb

onomatopoeia
words that create the sound the word makes

alliteration
repetition of initial consonant sounds

vergilian word picture
words organized to form a picture of the object they are describing

hendiadys
two nouns used in repetition for the same task

prolepsis
talking about a future event as if it has already happened

chiasmus
ABBA word pattern

apostrophe
calling out to a person who is absent or dead

pleonasm
unneccessary adition of synonymic words for meter

tricolon crescens
three things presented with increasingly longer descriptions

hyperbole
an exaggeration

supine
fourth principle part translated as an infinitive

aposiopesis
a trailing off

litotes
an understatement using a double negative

ecphrasis
describing a pictoral representation

tmesis
breaking apart a word or phrase with another word

enjambment
placing similar words in the next line

asyndeton
omission of conjunctions

atonomasia
a nickname

zeugma
unrelated words used together