People
This person starts off "singing" the beginning of the Aeneid.
Who is Vergil?
What is Troy?
Several words near each other starting with the same letter.
What is alliteration?
The case of "Musa" in line 8 when the poet references her.
What is vocative?
for, fari, fatus sum
What is "to speak"?
The people the serpents attacked first
Who are Laocoon's sons?
The place in Carthage where Dido is first seen
What is a temple?
The repetition of a word or phrase for emphasis
What is anaphora?
"tenuere" is an example of this
What is a syncopated verb?
moenia, moenium
What is "walls"?
The divine figure whose anger is referenced at the beginning of Book I.
Who is Juno?
The country where Carthage is.
What is chiasmus?
"venturum (esse)" is an example of this
What is a future active infinitive?
"altum" is another word for this
What is "the sea"?
The leader of the Phoenecians
Who is Dido?
The place where the serpents came from and where the Greeks were hiding
What is the island of Tenedos?
The substitution of one word to mean another, e.g. "arma".
What is metonymy?
The use of the dative with a form of the verb "esse", e.g. "tantane animis caelestibus irae (sunt)?
What is dative of possession?
litus, litoris
What is "shore"?
Who are the Tyrians?
The name of the river near Troy full of bodies and helmets, mentioned by Aeneas
What is Simois?
A person is referred to by his/her father's name, e.g. Saturnia.
What is a patronymic?
The use of the infinitive in this line: tantae molis erat Romanam condere gentem
What is the subject?
anguis, anguis
What is "a serpent"?