Rhetorical terms
A list of three parallel items.
What is a tricolon?
The case normally used to express a "charge" or crimen
What is the genitive?
Saepissime is a [ ] adverb.
What is superlative?
The woman behind the prosecution (allegedly).
Who is Clodia?
The country that Thomas is from.
What is the United Kingdom?
The impersonation of a different character by the speaker.
What is prosopopoeia?
The two items at the centre of the charges against which Cicero is defending Caelius.
What are gold and poison?
The type of infinitive in errare humanum est.
What is a subjective infinitive?
The man who, with Cicero, educated Clodius.
Who is Marcus Crassus?
The classroom we are currently in.
Where is Phelps Hall 407?
The arrangement of words or concepts in an ABBA* order.
*not the band.
What is chiasmus?
The name of the Roman holiday resort associated with immorality and vice.
What is Baiae?
This construction is introduced by a verb like vereor.
What is a "fear clause"?
Who is Lucius Sergius Catilina?
Any two of the sports which LATN 131 class members play for Yale.
What are crew/swimming/track?
"A violent displacement of normal word order" (Keitel and Crawford), especially where two words we'd expect to go together are separated.
What is hyperbaton?
The position Cicero held in 63BC.
What is Consul?
The three letters that seem to be missing in si quis, iudices, forte nunc adsit...
What is ali-?
The lead prosecutor for the trial, whose father had been prosecuted by Caelius.
Who is Lucius Sempronius Atratinus?
The number of different colleges represented by LATN 131 students.
How many is six? [Berkeley; Benjamin Franklin; Grace Hopper; Pauli Murray; Ezra Stiles; Davenport]
The deliberate use of a series of words with the same ending.
What is homoioteleuton?
The type of court in which Caelius was tried.
What is a quaestio perpetua de vi?
This type of conditional uses a pluperfect subjunctive in the protasis and an imperfect subjunctive in the apodosis.
What is a mixed-tense contrafactual?
The old man Cicero pretends to be to criticise Clodia.
Who is Appius Claudius Caecus?
The Latin motto of Connecticut.
What is qui transtulit sustinet?