Figures of Speech
ABBA
What is chiasmus?
The last pharaoh of Egypt and a descendent of a general under Alexander the Great.
Who is Cleopatra?
The river which Julius Caesar crossed and started a civil war in Rome.
What is the Rubicon?
This man played the fiddle while Rome burned, even the fiddle did not exist yet.
Who is Nero?
This is the island where the Minoan culture originated.
What is Crete?
Alliteration
What is repetition of a particular sound?
This Roman emperor is the son of a saint. She is credited with convincing her son to make the Roman empire Christian.
Who is Constantine the Great?
This author wrote the history of Rome in his collection titled Ab Urbe Condita.
Who is Livy?
This rival of Julius Caesar was given the name Magnus for his achievements in battle.
Who is Pompey?
These men copied countless scrolls and texts in the Middle Ages allowing them to survive to modern day.
Who are monks?
This is when a word is substituted to represent another word.
What is metonymy?
This is the common name for aconite, a deadly poison famously used by Locusta.
What is Wolf's Bane?
This emperor was assassinated by his own praetorian guard.
Who is Caligula?
After an emperor's death, he was often deified, or made into a god. This man started that trend, though he was not an emperor.
Who is Julius Caesar?
What is the Metamorphoses?
Anaphora
What is the repetition of a word?
This woman survived three assassination attempts on her life.
Who is Agrippina the Younger?
This uncle of another emperor was given the job after he was found hiding behind a curtain.
Who is Claudius?
The Roman general who won the Punic Wars and destroyed Carthage was thought to be a mystic that could see the future.
Who is Scipio Africanus?
This is the clan from which the first five Roman emperors descend.
What is the Julio-Claudian family?
Apostrohpe
What is a direct address to a thing or person not present?
This woman received the titles of Augusta and Divine (she was made a goddess) both after her death.
Who is Livia Drusilla?
What is Publius Ovidius Naso?
The Labyrinth was located at or under which Greek palace?
What is Knossos?
This school of philosophy focuses on self-control and reason, and included famous names such as Cicero, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius.
What is stoicism?