latin poetry terms/devices
Terms
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- scansion
- dividing poetry into syllables and then grouping by meter
- foot
- subdivision of a line
- antipenult
- 3rd to last syllable
- asyndeton
- not enough connecting words
- meter
- measured in feet
- penult
- 2nd to last syllable
- apostrophe
- speaking to something not present or not alive
- spondee
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(long long)
the last two feet of a line are always spondees - parallelism
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order of words is the same
(noun verb adj)
(noun verb adjective) - chiasmus
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relationship of two pairs of words structurally
(ab ba) - hexameter
- a line of poetry with 6 feet
- pentameter
- line of poetry with 5 feet
- Eligiac couplet
- 2 line stanzas
- syllabification
- dividing words of a poem into syllables
- simile
- comparison using like or as
- dipthong
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two vowels make one sound
e.g. ae, au, oe - blend
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two consonants making one sound
e.g. bl br gr - litotes
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understatement
("not bad" as opposed to "good") - metaphor
- comparison not using like or as
- Allision
- when a vowel ends a word, and a vowel starts another word, so they are blended during pronunciation(also used when words end un "um")
- hyperbole
- exaggeration
- recitatio
- recitation of poetry to public
- dactyl
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(long short short) - onomatopoeia
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word that stands for a sound
(peep) - caesura
- natural pause in a line of peotry
- hendiasys
- 2 nouns for noun/adjective
- Antithesis
- contrasting ideas in a line of poetry
- assonance
- repetition of a vowel sound in a line of poetry
- alliteration
- words in a line of poetry start withthe same letter/sound
- polysyndeton
- too many connectiong words
- elipsis
- absence of a verb that is understood in a poem (the most common is the verb to be)
- anaphora
- repeptition of words or phrases in a clause
- rhetorical question
- a question that expects no answer
- consonance
- repetition of a consonant sound in a line of poetry
- repetition
- repeat words for effect
- metonymy
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using a less common word in lieu
of a more common one - personification
- giving an inanimate object human characteristics
- synecdote
- using a part to stand for a whole