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Literary Terms 25-34
Praeteritio, prolepsis, prosopopoeia, simile, synchesis, synecdoche, tmesis, transferred epithet, tricolon crescens, zeugma
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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 |
| transferred epithet | application of an adjective to one noun when it properly applies to another, often involving personification and focusing special attention on the modified noun |
| tricolon crescens | a climatic series of three (or more) examples or illustrations, each (or at least the last) more fully developed or more intense than the preceding |
| zeugma | use of a single word with a pair of others when it logically applies to only one of them or applies to them both, but in two different ways |
| praeteritio | suggesting that one will pass over a topic and then going on to mention it |
| prosopopoeia | The assumption of another’s persona for rhetorical or dramatic effect |
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