| A | B |
|---|
| CHORIAMB | -UU- |
| IAM | U- |
| TROCHEE | -U |
| DACTYL | -UU |
| ANCEPS | LONG AND SHORT AT THE SAME TIME |
| SPONDEE | -- |
| ALLITERATION | magna maximaque mater |
| ANAPHORA | nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populi |
| ANASTROPHE | matre cum |
| APOSIOPESIS | Quos ego----sed nunc mare est placidum |
| APOSTROPHE | O patria, O divum domus |
| ASYNDETON | stant litore puppes |
| CHIASMUS | ABBA |
| SYNCHESIS | ABAB |
| HENDIADYS | one through two vi et armis meaning by force of arms |
| HYPERBOLE | mons aquae |
| HYSTERON PROTERON | moriamur et in media arma ruamus |
| IRONY | light sarcasm |
| LITOTES | nec bello pede |
| METONYMY | use of a word such as Ceres for grain or iron for sword |
| ONOMATOPOEIA | magno cum murmure montis or pipiabat |
| OXYMORON | cum tacent clamant |
| PRETERITION OR PARALEIPSIS | pretending to pass over something while clearly stating it, praetereo quod non mansit |
| PERSONIFICATION | Sol dixit |
| PLEONASM | sic ore locuta est, use of superfluous words |
| POLYSYNDETON | use of unnecessary conjunctions |
| PROLEPSIS | anticipation summeras obrue puppis |
| SIMILE | asserting an explicit comparison between two different things veluti, simil |
| SYNECHDOCHE | part of the whole or the reverse such as tectum for roof, domus for house, puppis stern for navis ship or mucro point for gladius sword |
| TMESIS | splitting a compound word such as circumvolare--the author would write circum...volare |
| TRANSFERRED EPITHET | an adjective which is transferred from the word to which it logically belongs to some other word connected in thought such as altae moenia Romae |
| EPITHET | an adjective |
| ZEUGMA | the junction of two words with a modifying word which strictly applies to only one of them such as Danaos et laxat claustra he loosens the barriers and (sets free) the Greeks. |
| GOLDEN LINE | omne capax movet urna nomen |
| HYPALLAGE | exchange as in transferred epithet |
| HELLENISTIC | belonging to the period of Hellenic culture beginning with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC |
| HENDIADYS | one through two, nice and warm, two words for one idea |
| HYPERBATON | leap-frogging of normal prose order |
| PARACLAUSITHYRON | outside a closed house-door poem |
| PROPEMPTICON | send off poem |
| STROPHE | turn a stanza of poetry |
| RECUSATIO | a poetic statement declining to take up a particular theme. A rhetorical device. |
| RING COMPOSITION | repeating at the end something that happened in the beginning |
| SYMPOTIC | having to do with a drinking party |
| SYNCOPE | for metrical econome a poet synchopates a verb such as repostum for repositum |
