Composition
The introduction of an encomium or an invective.
What is the prooemium?
This is what Buti says "begins in felicity and ends in misery" and what Aristotle says "is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude."
What is a tragedy?
Often would the Grecians have taken to flight, leaving Troy behind, and disbanded in weariness of the long war. "The Wooden Horse"
See Diagram (L2)
This is the translator for the version of The Aeneid we read in the fall.
Who is Robert Fitzgerald?
Who is Duncan?
A brief praise of the person represented as speaking or acting.
What is an Encomion?
A verbal adjective.
What is a participle?
Some were groaning at what they had suffered, others were in the midst of suffering badly.
See diagram (L8).
Which city does Aeneas help establish according to Virgil's Aeneid?
What is the city of Rome?
This title is given to Macbeth for bravery in the battle.
What is the Thane of Cawdor?
These five devices:
Invention (inventio), Arrangement (dispositio), Elocution (elocutio), Memory (memoria), and Delivery (actio/pronuntiatio)
are how the Ancient Greeks divided their rhetoric.
What are
The Canons of Rhetoric?
What is hendiadys?
It was not so much by the knowledge of words that I came to the understanding of things, as by my experience of things I was enabled to follow the meaning of words.
See diagram (L18).
She was the queen of Carthage and Aeneas's love interest in Book I of The Aeneid.
Who is Dido?
The reasoning Lady Macbeth says she can't kill Duncan.
What is he looks like her father?
These are three modes of persuasion that belong only to the art of rhetoric.
What are ethos, pathos and logos. (L21)
The "art of soul-leading" (Plato)
"The faculty of discovering in a given case the available means of persuasion" (Aristotle)
"The good man speaking well" (Quintilian)
What is rhetoric?
Now all men who have been chosen by lot to serve on juries receive no harm from their acquitta of the accued....
See Diagram (L7)
This god is the enemy of Aeneas and the Trojans throughout the book.
She is the queen of the witches.
Who is Hecate?
This is how the conclusion paragraph of your comparison essays end.
What is Prayer/Exhortation?
This figure of speech substitutes one part of speech for another.
What is Anthimeria?
And the death of the ox is the birth of the bee.
from Encomium for the Ox, In a Less Formal Style by Libanius, tr. by Craig A. Gibson
See diagram (L15)
The request Juno makes while finally giving in to Aeneas's victory.
What is the request that Italy inherit the Latin name and language and not the Trojans'?
These are the names of Duncan's sons.
Who are Malcolm and Donalbain?