Exercise 1. Which literary techniques are used in the following passages.

1. “when the power of love is greater than the love of power the world will know peace”

a) Brachylogy (breviloquentia)

b) Chiasmus

c) Metaphor

d) Onomatopoeia

2. "They took hostages by force and arms."

a) Hendiadys (one through two)

b) Hyperbaton (Trajection)

c) Metonymy

d) Personification

3. illi vero dicere sibi id nefas esse, seseque cum summa religione tum summo metu legum et
iudiciorum teneri.

a) Climax/Anticlimax

b) Digression

c) alliteration

d) Zeugma

4. “stant litore puppes.” - The ships (literally “sterns” – puppes) stand on the shore.

a) Tricolon

b) Emphatic position

c) Synechoche

d) Assonance
5. “habitavi in oculis, pressi forum” – I lived in their eyes, I pressed the forum (literal translation)

a) Assonance

b) Chiasmus

c) Metaphor

d) Synecdoche