Rhetorical Devices
Scansion
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Grammar
100
Interim ē Vesuviō monte plūribus locīs lātissimae flammae altaque incendia relūcēbant, quōrum fulgor et clāritās tenebrīs noctis excitābātur.
What is hendiadys?
100
terra ferāx, dum terra fuit, sed tempore in illō
What is dactyl, spondee, dactyl, spondee?
100
Ō tempora! Ō mōrēs! Senātus haec intellegit, cōnsul videt;
Who is Cicero?
100
What is his full name?
What is Marcus Tullius Cicero?
100
Tum mater orare hortari iubere, quoquo modo fugerem: posse enim iuvenem; se, et annis et corpore gravem, bene morituram, si mihi causa mortis non fuisset. Case and use of causa.
What is predicate nominative?
200
ad dēlūbra deae, quōrum fastīgia turpī pallēbant mūscō stābantque sine ignibus ārae.
What is chiasmus?
200
postque diem longam nūdata cacūmina silvae
What is dactyl, spondee, spondee, dactyl?
200
“O soror, o coniūnx, o fēmina sōla superstes, quam commūne mihi genus et patruēlis orīgō, deinde torus iūnxit, nunc ipsa perīcula iungunt, terrārum, quāscumque vident occāsus et ortus, nōs duō turba sumus; possēdit cētera pontus.”
Who is Deucalion?
200
What year was he consul?
What is 63 B.C.?
200
Ubi diēs redditus (is ab eō, quem novissimē vīderat, tertius), corpus inventum integrum, inlaesum opertumque, ut fuerat indūtus: habitus corporis quiēscentī quam dēfūnctō similior. What kind of "ut" clause?
What is comparative clause?
300
Nec defuerunt qui fictis mentitisque terroribus vera pericula augerent.
What is litotes?
300
What pairs of letters are diphthons?
What is ae, au, ei, eu, oe, and ui?
300
“Sī precibus nūmina iūstīs victa remollēscunt, sī flectitur īra deōrum, dīc, Themi, quā generis damnum reparābile nostrī arte sit et mersīs fer opem, mītissima, rēbus.”
Who are Deucalion and Pyrrah?
300
How many Catilinarians did he write?
What is 4?
300
“Sī precibus” dīxērunt “nūmina iūstīs victa remollēscunt, sī flectitur īra deōrum, dīc, Themi, quā generis damnum reparābile nostrī arte sit et mersīs fer opem, mītissima, rēbus.” What is the mood of verb "fer"?
What is imperative?
400
pars maris et lātus subitārum campus aquārum.
What is synchysis?
400
suscitat hesternos foliisque et cortice sicco
What is dactyl, spondee, dactyl, spondee?
400
"Si frater" inquit "tuus, tuus avunculus vivit, vult esse vos salvos; si periit, superstites voluit. Proinde quid cessatis evadere?"
Who is Pliny the Elder's friend from Spain
400
When was he born?
What is 106 B.C.?
400
vigiliae, nihil timor popuī, nihil concursus bonōrum omnium, nihil hic mūnītissimus habendī senātūs. What is the construction of "habendī"?
What is gerundive?
500
Ō tempora! Ō mōrēs! Senātus haec intellegit, cōnsul videt; hic tamen vīvit. Vīvit? immō vērō etiam in senātum vĕnit What part of speech is "immō vērō etiam"?
What is epanorthosis?
500
What is the term for the deliberate avoidance of elision?
What is hiatus?
500
Tūne eum, quem esse hostem comperistī, quem ducem bellī futūrum vidēs, quem exspectārī imperātōrem in castrīs hostium sentīs, auctōrem sceleris, prīncipem coniūrātiōnis, ēvocātōrem servōrum et cīvium perditōrum, exīre patiēre, ut abs tē nōn ēmissus ex urbe, sed immissus in urbem esse videātur? Nōnne hunc in vincla dūcī, nōn ad mortem rapī, nōn summō suppliciō mactāri imperābīs?
Who is the country?
500
What month and year did he die?
What is December 43 B.C.?
500
ut virī fortēs ācriōribus suppliciīs cīvem perniciōsum quam acerbissimum hostem coercērent. What kind of clause is contained in this passage?
What is adverbial result clause?
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