Latin Adv Reading Comp: Literary Devices and Their Examples

Alliteration

repetition of initial consonant sounds

Anaphora

repetition of a word at the beginning of successive clauses

Asyndeton

omission of conjunctions

Veni, vidi, vici.("I came, I saw, I conquered.")

Chiasmus (ABBA)

mirrored word order

Enjambment

continuation of a sentence across a line break

Golden Line

a poetic line in the form adjective A - adjective B - verb - noun A - noun B

Hendiadys

use of two nouns joined by et instead of a noun with an adjective

Hyperbaton

separation of words that belong together (e.g. adjective and noun)

Litotes

understatement using double negatives

Metonymy

using a related thing to stand in for the subject

Onomatopoeia

sound reflects sense

Personification

giving human traits to inanimate things

Polysyndeton

use of more conjunctions than necessary

Simile

extended comparison using ut, velut, sicut

Synchysis (ABAB)

interlocked word order

Synecdoche

using a part to represent the whole

Tmesis

separation of a compound word