Poetic Terms
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Greek Poetry
Character Matching
Authors
100
allusion
What is an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference?
100
synchysis
What is interlocked word order in which the "a" words and "b" words are linked with an interlocking effect? (ABAB)
100
Greek
What was initially considered the language of literature?
100
Horace
This writer became an immediate literary success once he arrived to Rome; also in Maecenas' council
100
Vergil
Who wrote the Aeneid?
200
chiasmus
What is a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order?
200
juxtaposition
What is the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect called?
200
quantitative meter
What meter was commonly used by Greek poets, and was borrowed by Latin poets?
200
Roman citizen
Who was well aware of the characteristics of Latin poetry and able to use them effectively?
200
Horace
Who became a literary almost immediately after arriving to Athens?
300
connotation
What is an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning?
300
parallelism
What is the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or pose that correspond in grammatical structure?
300
musical time allowed
What did the long or short quantity of a syllable represent?
300
Quintillian
Who was instructed by Domitian to teach his adopted sons poetry?
300
Ovid
Who wrote Metamorphoses and Ars Amatoria?
400
figurative language
What are tools that an author employs to help the reader visualize what is happening in a story or poem?
400
sound effects
Rhyming is the most recognizable form of these
400
False; Greek poetry was
TRUE or FALSE: Was Latin poetry originally closely allied to music?
400
Egnatius
Who was the guy with the shiny teeth, who was made fun of by Catullus?
400
Phaedrus
Who composed five books of verse mainly based on the animal fables of Aesop?
500
imagery
What is visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in literary work?
500
ABBA
What is the chiasmus pattern?
500
Augustus
By the time of ______, Latin poets had adapted Greek meters to Latin and had vindicated Latin as a great literary language in itself
500
Penelope
What woman did Horatius mention in the poem we read in class?
500
Catullus
Who's poems varied from tender and loving to insulting and obscene?
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