Grammar
The case used for indirect object.
What is dative case?
Repetition of the same letter at the beginning of a successive words.
What is alliteration?
translates silence
What is 'silentium'?
When Cicero lived
What is 1st century B.C.?
the style or manner that a formal speech is given
What is oration?
The case used for duration of time.
What is accusative?
Strong contrast achieved through parallelism.
What is antithesis?
Latin for 'children'
What is 'liberi'?
Rhetoric device frequently used by Cicero
What is rhetorical question?
Cicero's objective for the orations against Cataline
What is persuasion?
The case of predicate adjectives.
What is nominative case?
Repetition of the same vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
English for 'purgo'
What is clean, purify?
The first two parts of an oration.
What are exordium and narratio?
To present the opposite side of an argument
What is refutatio?
The degree of adjectives with -issimus, -a, -um endings.
What are superlatives?
inverted word order, such as noun-adjective
What is chiasmus?
Latin for 'wedding'
What is 'nuptiae'?
He was not seeking the death of Cataline.
Who was Cicero?
Cicero's master idea
What is conflict?
The personal endings are -r, -ris, -tur, -mur, -mini,
-ntur.
What is passive voice?
Omission of some easily understood words.
What is ellipsis?
pridie Kalendas Januarias
What is December 31?
Festivities in honor of Saturn beginning on December 17
What is Saturnalia?
'Quo usque tandem,abutere, Catilinia, patientia nostra?'
What is the first line of the First Oration against Cataline?