Poetry terms (easy)
An exaggeration for rhetorical effect
Hyperbole
A poetic foot consisting of two long vowels.
Spondee
Wrote the Aeneid, an Epic poem about Aeneas and the founding of Rome.
Virgil
A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
Metaphor
A poetic foot consisting of one long and two short vowels.
Dactyl
Was an orator and philosopher, primarily known for his speeches and rhetorical works during the reign of Augustus.
Cicero
the use of words with meanings contrary to the situation
Irony
the continuation of a unit of thought beyond the end of one verse and into the first few feet of the next.
Enjambment
Wrote the "Metamorphesis" Roman mythological stories and “Fasti,” a poem about Roman festivals.
Ovid
consists in repeating the same consonant sound at the beginning of two or more words in close succession
Alliteration
The avoidance in meter of elision between one word ending in a vowel and another beginning in a vowel
Hiatus
Primarily wrote odes, satires, and epistles. He was the son of a freed son and is known for his complete odes and Epodes.
Horace
"to shape like the letter Χ"; arrangement of words in an ABBA word order, most common with pairs of nouns and adjectives.
Chiasmus
Having one or more syllables than necessary in a line of verse, when a hexameter ends with a syllable that can elide with the first syllable of the next line.
Hypermetric line
Wrote “Ad Urbe Condita,” which was a comprehensive history about the history of Rome and it’s founders.
Livy