Vocabulary
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History/English
Grammar
Rhetorical Devices
100
Define animus.
soul, spirit, heart
100
How many feet are in a line of hexameter?
6
100
Who was Vergil's patron?
Augustus
100
What declension endings do present participles take?
3rd
100
This is the repetition of a word or phrase.
anaphora
200
Define altus.
deep, high
200
What is the metrical pattern of the last two feet of a line of hexameter?
dactyl, spondee
200
Who introduced Vergil to Augustus?
Maecenas
200
From what principle part are perfect passive participles formed?
4th
200
ABBA word order is called ___________.
Chiasmus
300
Define arx.
citadel
300
Give three reasons a vowel can be long.
Long by position, nature, or because of a diphthong.
300
What two pastoral words did Vergil compose?
Eclogues and Georgics
300
Name all four Latin moods.
Indicative, infinitive, imperative, subjunctive
300
"I'm going to kill that magician. I'll dismember him and then I'll sue him." (Woody Allen, "Oedipus Wrecks" in New York Stories, 1989)
hysteron proteron
400
What is the Latin word for wave?
fluctus
400
Scan this line: et genus invisum et rapti ganymedis honores.
dssdds
400
From what island do the serpents attack Laocoon?
Tenedos
400
Translate mirabile dictu.
Marvelous to say
400
Sic ore locuta est.
Pleonasm
500
What is the Latin word for sand?
Haerena
500
Scan this line: id metuens veterisque memor Saturnia belli.
dddsds
500
To whom was Dido promised before Aeneas arrived in Carthage?
Iarbas
500
What is the comparative form of malus?
Peior
500
"I won't sleep in the same bed with a woman who thinks I'm lazy! I'm going right downstairs, unfold the couch, unroll the sleeping ba--uh, goodnight." (Homer Simpson in The Simpsons)
aposiopesis