Five Literary Devices Found in Catullus 12

1. Alliteration-"miserunt mihi muneri" (Carm. 12.15)
2. Hyperbole-Catullus makes a large deal of taking napkins, even calling Asinius a fool ("inepte"-Carm. 12.4)
3. Rhetorical question-"Hoc salsum esse putas?" (Carm. 12.4)
4. Metonymy-"hendecasyllabos trecentos" to mean many of his poems or many lines of his poems(Carm. 12.10)
5. Allusion-to both "Fabullus et Veranius" (Carm. 12.15-16)