Scansion
Vocabulary
Mythology
Grammar
Literary Devices
100

Two vowels together that make one sound and are scanned as long

What is a diphthong?

100

Divus

What is 'a god'?

100

Wife of Jupiter and Queen of the gods

Who is Juno?

100

The case for direct objects

What is accusative?

100

Comparison using like or as

What is a simile?

200

Elision 

What is cutting out the last vowel of a word when the next word begins with a vowel?

200

ni

What is 'if not'?

200

The main character of our poem

Who is Aeneas?

200

The definition of a participle

What is a verbal adjective?
200

Exaggeration for dramatic effect

What is hyperbole?
300

The number of feet in a line of the Aeneid

What is six?

300

mind

What is 'mens'?

300
The more common Latin name for Pallas

What is Minerva?

300

The common translation of a perfect passive participle

What is -ed or 'having been -ed'?

300

Arranging words in an 'ABBA' pattern

What is chiasmus?

400

The situation when the letter 'I' is a consonant in Latin.

What is when it is the first letter and the second letter is a vowel?

400

Sea

What is 'pontus' or 'mare' or 'aequor'?

400

Where the founders of Carthage originally came from.

What is Phoenicia or Tyre?

400

The construction with a noun and a participle in the ablative case

What is ablative absolute?
400

Omitting conjunctions

What is asyndeton? 

500

The times that a syllable can be long.

What are when the vowel has a long mark, the vowel is followed by two or more consonants, and diphthongs?

500

right

What is 'fas'?

500

The king of the winds

Who was Aeolus?

500

Two things you look for to recognize an indirect statement

What are accusative noun, infinitive verb, head verb?
500
Delaying the last word of a clause until the first position of the next line

What is enjambment?

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