AP Latin Poetry Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 anaphora | repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive clauses |
| anastrophe | inversion of the normal order of words (Yoda talks like this) |
| aposiopesis | breaking off in the middle of a sentence, the syntax of which is never resumed |
| apostrophe | sudden break from previous narrative for an address, in the secondperson, of a some person or object, absent or present. |
| asyndeton | omission of conjunctions |
| chiasmus | arrangement of words in a mirroring or ABBA pattern found most often with pairs of nouns and adjectives |
| ecphrasis | extended and elaborate description of a work of art, a building or a natural setting |
| ellipsis | omission of one or more words which must be logically supplied in order to create a grammatically complete expression |
| enjambment | the continuation of a unit of thought beyond of one verse and into the first few feet of the next. |
| hendiadys | expression of an idea by means of two nouns connected by a conjunction instead of a noun and modifying adjective or by one noun modified by another. (sound and fury instead of Furious sound) |
| hiatus | avoidance in meter of elision between what would normally alide |
| hyperbation | distanced placement of two words which are logically meant to be understood togeteher |
| hysteron proteron | reversal of natural or logical order of ideas (bred and born instead of born and bread) |
| litotes | understatement often enhanced by use of the double negative |
| metonymy | substitution of one word for another which it suggests (hollywood = U.S cinema) |
| pleonasm | unnecessary use of excess word parts ( burning fire) |
| polysyndeton | overabundance of conjunctions |
| proplepsis | inclusion in the main story of references to events which in fact will occur after the dramatic time of the poem |
| synchysis | interlocking word order; abAB |
| synecdoche | use of part for the whole or the reverse (the car= wheels) |
| tmesis | separation into two parts of a word normally written as one, opften for visual effect |
| transferred epithet | epithet which is describing something other than what it ought to be describing, yet is still connected.(he rubbed his meditative foot), the foot is meditative but it still describes him |
| tricolon crescens | accumulation of 3 parallel phrases or clauses each of which is at least one syllable longer than the procceeding |
| zeugma | joining of 2 or more parts of a sentence with a common noun or verb. (using a verb for more than one clause) |
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