Meter
The meter of epic poetry.
What is Dactylic Hexameter?
This poet famously wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
The repetition of a word in a line or sentence.
What is anaphora?
“O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done.” Walt Whitman
What is apostrophe?
This city.
What is Rome?
This meter is used primarily in love poetry.
What is elegiac couplet?
This poet wrote the Metamorphoses a collection of myths written in dactylic hexameter.
Who is Ovid?
The exclusion of conjunctions in a list.
What is asyndeton?
“Parting in such sweet sorrow.” –Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
What is oxymoron?
This river.
What is the Nile River?
This meter has eleven syllables in each line.
What is Hendecasyllables?
This poet was the most famous satirist of ancient Rome.
Who is Juvenal?
A certain type of interlocking word order that follows the pattern ABAB.
What is synchysis?
“...government of the people, by the people, for the people…” –Abraham Lincoln
What is tricolon?
This sea.
What is Aegean Sea?
Catullus wrote mostly in this meter.
What is Hendecasyllables?
This poet wrote the famous quote "carpe diem".
Who is Horace?
When a word is replaced with another words that is closely related.
What is metonymy?
“Love the life you live. Live the life you love.” -Bob Marley
What is chiasmus?
This island.
What is Crete?
This poet wrote the Roman epic, Aeneid in dactylic hexameter.
Who is Vergil/Virgil?
This poet is often known as the tenth muse.
Who is Sappho?
A double negative to express a positive.
What is litotes?
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from swift completion of their appointed rounds.” –US Postal Service Creed
What is polysyndeton?
The seven hills of Rome.
What is: the Quirinal Hill, the Viminal Hill, the Esquiline Hill, the Caelian Hill, the Capitoline Hill, the Palaine Hill, the Aventine Hill?