Set: Gaither - Literary Devices (Cicero through Narcissus)

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Term Definition
Chiasmus A reversal of corresponding pairs (Her voice was warm, but cold was her heart)
Tmesis Splitting a word (Un-flippin-believable)
Litotes The use of a negative to create an understatement
Metaphor A comparison without "like"*
Similie Comaprison with "like" or "as if"
Synesis Agreement by sense rather than grammatical rule (The team landed last night and we wanted to greet them)
Juxtaposition Placing words near each other for an effect
Synechdoche When a part represents the whole (The pen is mightier than the sword)
Transferred Epithet An adjective modifying one noun although it should modify another (to shake an angry finger)
Anaphora Repition of initial words
Synchesis Interlocked word order
Hendiadys 2 words that are parallel when subordination is more appropriate (the crowd and the noise were overbearing)
Zeugma Two words governed by one although only 1 of the2 is strictly appropriate (She broke the glass and my heart)
Antithesis The use of an opposite to highlight a contrast
Preterition Mentioning something while professing not to (what politicians do)
Syncope A middle syllable is omitted (petisti instead of petivisti)
Apocope Omission of the end of a word (cred instead of credability)
Aphesis Omission of a front syllable ('stralia instead of Australia)
Apostrophe Addressed to an inatimate object or person
Pejoration Act of making something worse than it is
Anastrophe The inverstion of accepted word order (Whom did you give it to?)
Metonymy Substitution of one word for another (The White House announced)
Epithet A characteristic adjective (the staff-bearing Mercury)
Polysyndeton The use of too many conjunctions
Periphrasis A surfeit of words; using more than necessary (That gathering of swelling ice crystals [ice])
Asyndeton A lack of conjunctions
Ellipsis omission of words
Pleonasm The use of superfluous words (He licked it with his tongue)
Prolepsis Anticipating an act already done (The waves engulfed the sunken ship)
Hyperbole Exaggeration for effect
antonomasia Using the name of a divinity to replace an object related to it (Ceres = food)
Paradox An apparent contradiction, with truth

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Created April 2, 2008
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rahulsastry : Changed Transferred Eputhet → An adjective modifying one noun although it should modify another (to shake an angry finger) to Transferred Epithet → An adjective modifying one noun although it should modify another (to shake an angry finger)
rahulsastry : Changed Hendiadys → 2 words that are parallel when subordination is more appropriate (the crows and the noise were overbearing) to Hendiadys → 2 words that are parallel when subordination is more appropriate (the crowd and the noise were overbearing)
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  1. Periphrasis → A surfeit of words; using more than necessary (That gathering of swelling ice crystals [ice]) - 7 misses
  2. Prolepsis → Anticipating an act already done (The waves engulfed the sunken ship) - 6 misses
  3. Pleonasm → The use of superfluous words (He licked it with his tongue) - 5 misses
  4. Anastrophe → The inverstion of accepted word order (Whom did you give it to?) - 4 misses
  5. Synesis → Agreement by sense rather than grammatical rule (The team landed last night and we wanted to greet them) - 2 misses
  6. Preterition → Mentioning something while professing not to (what politicians do) - 2 misses
  7. Apocope → Omission of the end of a word (cred instead of credability) - 2 misses