AP LATIN LITERARY DEVICES

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

• Chiasmus
• Alliteration
• Polysyndeton
• Aposiopesis

Answer explanation

Chiasmus is a word pattern of A-B-B-A

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

Answer explanation

Anaphora is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases.

I'll succumb to something that I summon soon

• Zeugma

• Asyndeton

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

Answer explanation

Alliteration is the repetition of a consonant; here, it is the letter S.

Shakespeare was not unfamiliar with poetry.

• Chiasmus
• Hysteron Proteron
• Litotes
• Apostrophe

Answer explanation

Litotes is a double negative.

The Oval Office is very busy these days.

• litotes
• metonymy
• hendiadys
• pleonasm

Answer explanation

Metonymy is the use of one word/phrase that is a representation of another word, the one originally intended. Here, "Oval Office" signifies the president and his actions.

He came despite the rain and weather.

• synchesis
• metonymy
• hendiadys
• hysteron proteron

Answer explanation

Hendiadys is a single idea expressed by two separate words, which are connected by the word "and," usually in Latin, it is the word "et."

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

Answer explanation

Polysyndeton is an excessive use of conjunctions.

"Frailty, thy name is woman!"

• apostrophe
• alliteration
• asyndeton
• anaphora

Answer explanation

Apostrophe is addressing someone (in this example, something) that is not present in the scene.

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

• metonymy
• asyndeton
• polysyndeton
• synchesis

Answer explanation

Asyndeton is a lack of conjunctions when there should be one or more.

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

• polysyndeton
• zeugma
• litotes
• anaphora

Answer explanation

Zeugma is the use of a word in both a literal and a figurative sense. Here, the "walking" is both a physical action into the destination, as well as symbolizing moving on.