AP LATIN LITERARY DEVICES

Do I love you because you're beautiful? Or are you beautiful because I love you?

• Chiasmus
• Alliteration
• Polysyndeton
• Aposiopesis

Let it go, let it go, can't hold it back anymore. Let it go, let it go, turn away and slam the door...

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

• Metonymy

• Chiasmus

I'll succumb to something that I summon soon

• Zeugma

• Asyndeton

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

Shakespeare was not unfamiliar with poetry.

• Chiasmus
• Hysteron Proteron
• Litotes
• Apostrophe

The Oval Office is very busy these days.

• litotes
• metonymy
• hendiadys
• pleonasm

He came despite the rain and weather.

• synchesis
• metonymy
• hendiadys
• hysteron proteron

Well now, one winter it was so cold that all the geese flew backward and all the fish moved south and even the snow turned blue. 

• hendiadys
• aposiopesis
• anaphora
• polysyndeton

"Frailty, thy name is woman!"

• apostrophe
• alliteration
• asyndeton
• anaphora

"I woke up, got out of bed, pulled on my clothes, rushed out the door"

• metonymy
• asyndeton
• polysyndeton
• synchesis

His girlfriend and his hopes for all future happiness walked out of the dance and into the rain.

• polysyndeton
• zeugma
• litotes
• anaphora