Stilistic Figures in Latin Literature

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Stilistic Figures In Latin Literature

Ok in here I will show you the most important literaric figures...well I only know the German name of each Stilistic Method, so I try my best to translate them, so never mind ...

1.Alliteration

This is a very common figure and very easy to recognize:

Caeser cum Cicero
Veni,Vidi,Vinci
bellum bonum

so as you can see in an Alliteration there is a repition of the first letter within two or more words...

2.Hyperbaton

It also means barrier.

magnae periculo opes

so the word 'periculo' is in between the 2 words 'magnae' and 'opes' , which normally stand next to each other.

3.Heudiadyon

4.Parallelism

It means that 2 sentences have the same syntactic order

Italia in Europa est.
Marcus ad scholam currit.

The order of the sentences is both Subject-Object-Verb,

5.Chiasm

This is the opposite of 4:

Claudiam laudo
Venio ad Marcum.

So the sentence order is different. It is called a 'crossover positioning'

->1. Object-Verb ->2. Verb-Object

6.Litotes

This is a double negation:

 ignorare // not knowing
 non ignorare // know well

7.Anapher

The same word in the front of the sentence

timeo, ne...
     , ne...
     , ne...

8.Epipher

This is the same like 7, just that the repitated word stands at the end-position.

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sorry for my English ;-)...I will continue this page regularly, as soon as I will get some new stuff in school ;-)...