Literary Devices Figurative Language in Latin Poetry Anaphora

Literary Devices Figurative Language in Latin Poetry

Anaphora • repetition of words or phrases (often for emphasis) quod facit, quod fugat (Ovid Metamorphoses) • Nihilne te praesidium Palati, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor • As I ebb’d with the ocean of populi…moverunt? life, (Cicero In Catilinam) • As I wended the shores I know, • As I walk’d… (W. Whitman) • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=h 81 Ojd 3 d 2 r. Y

Anastrophe • inversion of usual/typical word order • "Ready are you? What know you of ready? My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. . ” (Yoda in Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, 1980) • te propter vivo (instead of the expected propter te vivo) • āctī fātīs maria omnia circum (Vergil) …Umbras erat illa recentes inter et incessit passu… (Ovid Metamorphoses)

Apostrophe addressing an absent person Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull…. (John Milton) Vel quae, Tiberine, videbis funera Twinkle twinkle, little star… (Vergil Aeneid) O maiores, quid diceretis de hac re? ("Oh ancestors, what would you say about this matter? ") https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=QYRy 4 Zcd. PC 8

Asyndeton vs. Polysyndeton asyndeton: omission of conjunctions “…government of the people, for the people, by the people” https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=e. FTLKW w 542 g https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Qm. Rs. Wd. K 0 PRI polysyndeton: use of more conjunctions than usual or necessary “…Swims or sinks or wades or creeps or flies… https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=o. WU Qsl. N 9 UY 8 Veni, vidi, vici. Laudat digitosque manusque bracchiaque.

Chiasmus • • • arrangement of words in crisscross (A-B-B-A) pattern to emphasize some contrast or to create a word-picture “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. ” https: //www. youtube. com/watch ? v=Nyp. CROu 8 YVQ https: //www. youtube. com/watch ? v=Wxg. BXJM 6 z. J 8 https: //www. youtube. com/watch ? v=X 2 Qn. G 3 Dw. VW 0 • …fors ignara dedit, sed saeva Cupidinis ira… (Ovid Meta 1. 453) magnas urbes et oppida parva viderunt (adj-noun-adj) magnas urbes oppida parva

More Chiasmus lassaque versati corporis ossa dolent… (…the weary bones of [my] body tossing and turning hurt… -- Ovid Amores) lassa versati ossa corporis

Enjambment a running on of a thought from one line to another without final punctuation Ille mi par esse deo videtur, may sometimes trick a reader ille, si fas est, superare divos Trees by Joyce Kilmer qui sedens adversus identidem te I think that I shall never see spectat et audit A poem lovely as a tree. dulce ridentem, misero quod A tree whose hungry mouth is prest omnis Against the sweet earth's flowing breast; eripit sensus mihi: nam simul te, A tree that looks at God all day, Lesbia, adspexi…. (Catullus 51) And lifts her leafy arms to pray; https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=djv. IW PJ_z. Xc https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=G 8 ffk https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=vv Df 0 ol 4 0_G 88 v. Fk 4

Hyperbole exaggeration https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=tsuo Pby. Wrm 0

Litotes an affirmative is expressed by a negative (a form of understatement) https: //www. youtube. com/wat ch? v=-la. LCm. Bdo. Ao I’m not unfamiliar with the term. Nec nuda minus formosa videtur…. (formosa = pulchra) (Ovid Meta) non paucos ures (uro, urere = burn) (Ovid Meta)

Metonymy

Hyperbaton

Synchesis

Tmesis

Metaphor & Simile

Onomatopoeia

Personification