Daedalus and Icarus literary devices

Identify the literary device

• lack of expected conjunction

• asyndeton

• carrying over word to next line of verse

• alliteration

• ABBA word order

• anastrophe

• repetition of letter

• enjambment

• inversion of two words

• chiasmus

Identify the literary device

• one word foreshadowing

• personification

• contrasting words placed near each other

• prolipsis

• comparison with like or as

• simile

• use of two nouns with one verb

• juxaposition

• giving "things" human qualities

• hendiadys

Identify the literary device

• a part standing for the whole

• ellipsis

• ABAB word order

• polysyndeton

• saying something by negating opposite

• litotes

• excessive conjunctions

• synchesis

• leaving out understood word

• synecdoche

Identify with number only:

Daedalus intereā Crētēn longumque perōsus

exilium,

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Identify with number only:

velut āles, ab altō

quae teneram prōlem prōdūxit in āera nīdō;

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Identify with number only:

nūdōs quatit ille lacertōs

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Identify with number only: ignārus sua sē tractāre perīcla

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Identify with number only: Īcare," ait "moneō, nē, sī dēmissior ībīs,/unda gravet pennās, sī celsior, ignis adūrat

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Identify with number only: tum līnō mediās et cērīs adligat īmās

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Identify with number only: Crēten longumque perōsus/exilium

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