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Literary Devices/Stylistic Features the AP People Expect you to Know

…and love. Literary Devices/Stylistic Features the AP People Expect you to Know. alliteration. Interea m agno m isceri m ur m ure pontum . Aen.I.124 Repetition of the same letter or sound, usually at the beginning of a series of words. anaphora.

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Literary Devices/Stylistic Features the AP People Expect you to Know

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  1. …and love. Literary Devices/Stylistic Features the AP People Expect you to Know

  2. alliteration Intereamagnomiscerimurmurepontum. Aen.I.124 Repetition of the same letter or sound, usually at the beginning of a series of words.

  3. anaphora hicilliusarma, hiccurrusfuit; hoc regnum deagentibusesse Aen.I.16-17 The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.

  4. Apostrophe The sudden break from the previous narrative for an address, in the second person, of some person or object, absent or present.

  5. asyndeton Navem in conspectunullam, treslitorecervos The omission of conjunctions.

  6. Chiasmus Navem in conspectunullam, treslitorecervos Aen.I.184 Impulerit. Tantaenaanimiscaelestibusirae? Aen.I.11 An arrangement of words in a mirroring, or ABBA, pattern found most often with pairs of nouns and adjectives. (the 1st case is chiastic because we have a noun, adjective, adjective, noun. The 2nd because adj1 noun2 adject2 noun1.)

  7. Enjambment Quidvedolensreginadeum tot volvere casus Insignempietatevirum, tot adirelabores Impulerit.Tantaenaanimiscaelestibusirae? Aen.I.9-11 The continuation of a unit of thought beyond the end of one verse and into the first few feet of the next.

  8. Hyperbole …fluctusquead sideratollit. Aen. I.103 An exaggeration for rhetorical effect.

  9. litotes Post mihinon similipoenacommissaluetis. Aen.I.136 An understatement, often enhanced by the use of the negative

  10. metonymy TumCereremcorruptamundisCerealiaque… Aen. I.177 The substitution of one word for another which it suggestions. Here, Ceres is the goddess of grain, so her name is being substituted for “grain.”)

  11. personification Hic fessas non vinculanaves… Aen.I.168 The attachment of human traits and characteristics to inanimate objects, phenomena, and animals.

  12. polysyndeton Insequiturclamorquevirumstridorquerudentem; Eripiuntsubitonubescaelumquediemque. Aen.I.87-88 On overabundance of conjunctions.

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