Literary Devices
magno miseceri murmure
What is alliteration?
Case and use:
transfixo pectore
What is Ablative Absolute or Place From Which?
Pontus, Altum, and Aequor are all words for this . . .
What is sea?
Haec dea est saeva.
Who is Juno?
The meter used in epic poetry.
What is dactylic hexameter?
hic illius arma,/hic currus fuit.
What is anaphora?
Sunt mihi bis septem praestanti corpore Nymphae,
Case and use of mihi.
What is Dative of Possession?
Define:
Defessi Aeneadae
Who are "the tired people of Aeneas"?
Est rex ventorum.
Who is Aeolus?
The long-short-short measure.
What is a dactyl?
ille regit dictis animos et pectore mulcet
What is chaismus?
. . . dum conderet urbem . . .
Name the type of clause.
What is Dum Anticipatory?
Harena
What is "sand"?
Haec nympha est forma pulcherrima.
Who is Deiopeia?
ae, oe, au, among others.
What are diphthongs?
Navem in conspectu nullam, tres litore cervos/prospicit errantes; . . .
What is chiasmus or gapping?
Mirabile visu.
Verb form of visu.
What is a supine?
Define coorta est/seditio.
What is "a riot has arisen"?
Hic vir fidus appellatur.
Who is Achates?
-is, -as, -es follow this rule of scanning.
What is long by nature?
Tum Cererem corruptam undis Cerealiaque arma/expediunt . . .
What is metonymy?
Name the type of clause:
. . . qui foedere certo /et premere et laxas sciret dare iussus habenas.
What is a relative clause of characteristic?
Define nemora inter frondea.
What is "among the leafy groves"?
The son of Jupiter, he died on the plains of Troy.
Who is Sarpedon?
It's happening twice in this line:
suscepitque ignem foliis atque arida circum
What is elision?