Morphosyntactic, Phonic, and Lexical-Semantic Resources

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Morphosyntactic Resources

  • Anaphora: Repetition of a word at the beginning of each verse.
  • Parallelism: Repetition of structures.
  • Anadiplosis: Repetition of the last word at the end and beginning of a verse.
  • Concatenation: Several anadiplosis in a row.
  • Epanadiplosis: Repetition of a word at the beginning and end of the verse.
  • Pun: Repetition of words by reversing the order.
  • Chiasmus: Repetition in which there is a cross-distribution of elements in the same structure.
  • Hyperbaton: Changing the natural order of a sentence.
  • Pun: Repetition of words that sound alike, and at least one of which is composed of two terms.
  • Epithet: Adjective that expresses a quality of the accompanying noun.
  • Pleonasm: Redundancy through repetition, i.e., adding unnecessary terms.
  • Enumeration: Expression of a number of successive terms whose elements must belong to the same grammatical category.

Phonic Resources

  • Alliteration: Repetition of one or more sounds very close.
  • Onomatopoeia: Intent to imitate real sounds.
  • Paronomasia: Repetition of very similar-sounding words.

Lexical-Semantic Resources

  • Simile: Comparing two terms with a particle such as "as well as".
  • Metaphor: Substitution of the name of a reality by the name of another to which it appears.
  • Allegory: Chained metaphors that describe imaginary facts corresponding to real facts.
  • Synonymy: Sequence of continuous or near synonyms.
  • Synesthesia: Union of two realities that are perceived by different senses.
  • Metonymy: Designation of a reality with the name of another that is related.
  • Symbol: Expression referring to another reality.
  • Hyperbole: Excessive exaggeration.
  • Litotes: To deny otherwise is to state what is desired.
  • Synecdoche: A particular type of metonymy that is the substitution of the name of one part by the whole.
  • Personification: Attribution of human qualities to inanimate or unreal beings.
  • Antithesis: Opposition of two opposites.
  • Paradox: Expression of a thought that seems absurd.
  • Gradation: Enumeration in ascending or descending order.

Literary Topics

  • Colliege, virgo, rosas: A call for women to enjoy their youth before old age.
  • Beatus ille: Contempt for material goods and praise of life away from social events.
  • Golden mean: Advises to be placed in the middle.
  • Locus amoenus: Description of a beautiful landscape.
  • Ubi sunt?: The poet wonders about the whereabouts of those who have died.

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