Stylistic Devices in Latin literature

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A series of three examples to illustrate a point.

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tricolon

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Repetition of the same stem in multiple words.

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polyptoton

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Word repeated at the start of a poetry line

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anaphora

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Using one word/phrase to represent another.

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metonymy

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A double negative

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litotes

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Detailed description of a place or building

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ecphrasis

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‘I am carried away like a ship swept along in fast water’ is...

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simile

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‘poenas garrulus iste dabit!’ is...

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direct speech

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‘What the young man of Phocis was to Orestes of Argolis’ is...

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a mythological example

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Stylistic device underlined?

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anaphora