Pliny, Epistulae 6.16 & 6.20, Stylistic Devices Practice

nam videō mortī eius sī celebrētur ā tē

immortālem glōriam esse prōpositam.

• Anaphora

• Polyptoton

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

[Plinius Maior] complectitur trepidantem, cōnsōlātur, hortātur,

• Asyndeton

• Polysyndeton

• Litotes

• Apostrophe

[i.e. nubes] candida interdum, interdum sordida et maculōsa

• Synchysis

• Chiasmus

• Synecdoche

• Metonymy

(erat enim frequēns amoenitās ōrae)

• Simile

• Ellipsis

• Apostrophe

• Enallage

iam pūmicēs etiam nigrīque et ambustī et frāctī igne lapidēs;

• Asyndeton

• Polysyndeton

• Polyptoton

• Anaphora

[tecta] nunc hūc, nunc illūc abīre aut referrī vidēbantur.

• Synecdoche

• Polysyndeton

• Polyptoton

• Anaphora

Interim Mīsēnī ego et māter— sed nihil ad historiam,

nec tū aliud quam dē exitū eius scīre voluistī.

• Asyndeton

• Aposiopesis

• Apostrophe

• Anaphora

Resēdimus in āreā domūs,

quae mare ā tēctīs modicō spatiō dīvidēbat.

• Synchysis

• Chiasmus

• Synecdoche

• Metonymy

Nihilō sēgnius ego intentus in librum

• Oxymoron

• Asyndeton

• Enallage

• Litotes

Tum māter ōrāre, hortārī, iubēre,

quōquō modō fugerem;

• Infinitives of Purpose

• Historical Infinitives

• Subject Infinitives

• Complementary Infinitives