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Literary Terms 25-34
prolepsis, prosopopoeia, simile, synchesis, synecdoche, tmesis, synizesis, anacoluthon
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| prolepsis | attribution of some characteristic to a person or thing before it is logically appropriate, especially application of a quality to a noun before the action of the verb has created that quality |
| simile | an explicit comparison (often introduced by ut, velut, qualis, or simlis) between one person or thing and another, the latter generally something more familiar to the reader (frequently a scene from nature) and thus more easily visualized |
| synchesis | interlocked word order; arrangement of related pairs of words in an alternating ABAB pattern, often emphasizing the close connection between two thoughts or images |
| synecdoche | a type of metonymy in which a part is named in place of an entire object, or a material for a thing made of that material, or an individual in place of a class |
| tmesis | separation of a compound word into its constituent parts, generally for metrical convenience |
| prosopopoeia | The assumption of another’s persona for rhetorical or dramatic effect |
| synizesis | 2 originally syllabic vowels are pronounced as a single syllable |
| anacoluthon | a sentence with no grammatical sequence |
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