Figures of Speech
ABBA
What is chiasmus?
This is an early period of Classical art characterized by stiff poses and large almond-shaped eyes.
What is Archaic?
Ovid's full name.
Who is Publius Ovidius Naso?
This river runs through Rome.
What is the Tiber?
Alliteration
What is repetition of a sound?
A type of painting done on wet plaster.
What is fresco?
Cicero's full name.
Who is Marcus Tullius Cicero?
The Roman Senate building.
What is the Curia?
ABAB
What is Synchesis?
Another name for the revival period known as Classicism.
What is Renaissance?
This Roman emperor waged war against the sea.
Who is Caligula?
Scan the line:
lītora, multum ille et terrīs iactātus et altō
- u u / - - / - - /- - / - u u /- x
lītora, multum ille et terrīs iactātus et altō
Anaphora
What is the repetition of a word?
Time period of Classical revival that coincided with the founding of the United States.
What is Neoclassicism?
This Roman emperor played the fiddle as Rome burned.
Who is Nero?
The stance used in sculpture where weight is on one leg and creates an "s"-shape with the body.
What is contrapposto?
Apostrohpe
What is a direct address to a thing or person not present?
This man (re)invented linear perspective in painting in the 15th century?
Who is Brunelleschi?
The only member of the Ptolemaic dynasty to speak Egyptian.
Who is Cleopatra?
This is the political office Cicero held at the time of the Pro Archia.
What is a senator?