ap latin - literary devices

bc i keep forgetting

alliteration

repetition of the same letter at beginning of words or syllables

ex: Marcus me momordit

anaphora

the repetition of a word or phrase for emphasis

ex: non feram, non sinam, non patiar

anastrophe

inversion of usual word order (e.g. preposition after the word it governs)

ex: te propter vivo (instead of the expected propter te vivo)

aposiopesis

breaking off in the middle of a sentence

ex: quem ego . . . sed non possum pergere. ("Whom I . . . but I cannot go on.")

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