Figures of Speech
Art
History
Miscellaneous
100

ABBA

What is chiasmus?

100

This is an early period of Classical art characterized by stiff poses and large almond-shaped eyes.

What is Archaic?

100

Ovid's full name.

Who is Publius Ovidius Naso?

100

This river runs through Rome.

What is the Tiber?

200

Alliteration

What is repetition of a sound?

200

A type of painting done on wet plaster.

What is fresco?

200

Cicero's full name.

Who is Marcus Tullius Cicero?

200

The Roman Senate building.

What is the Curia?

300

ABAB

What is Synchesis?

300

Another name for the revival period known as Classicism.

What is Renaissance?

300

This Roman emperor waged war against the sea.

Who is Caligula?

300

Scan the line:

lītora, multum ille et terrīs iactātus et altō

- u u /   -       -  /  -   -  /-  - / - u   u /-  x

lītora, multum ille et terrīs iactātus et altō

400

Anaphora

What is the repetition of a word?

400

Time period of Classical revival that coincided with the founding of the United States.

What is Neoclassicism?

400

This Roman emperor played the fiddle as Rome burned.

Who is Nero?

400

The stance used in sculpture where weight is on one leg and creates an "s"-shape with the body.

What is contrapposto?

500

Apostrohpe

What is a direct address to a thing or person not present?

500

This man (re)invented linear perspective in painting in the 15th century?

Who is Brunelleschi? 

500

The only member of the Ptolemaic dynasty to speak Egyptian.

Who is Cleopatra?

500

This is the political office Cicero held at the time of the Pro Archia.

What is a senator?

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