aeneid 1-200 rhetorical figures - examples

Arma virumque cano (line 1)

• metonymy

• alliteration

• hyperbaton

• hendiadys

saevae memorem Junonis ob iram (line 4)

• chaismus (ABBA)

• synchesis (ABAB)

• polysyndeton

• anastrophe

saevae memorem Junonis ob iram (line 4)

• transferred epithet

• synchdoche

• metaphor

• simile

genus unde Latinum Albanique patres atque altae moenia Romae. (lines 6-7)

• tricolon crescendo

• asyndeton

• anaphora

• apostrophe

genus unde Latinum Albanique patres atque altae moenia Romae. (lines 6-7)

• transferred epithet

• metonymy

• synchesis

• anastrophe

Musa, mihi causas memora, quo numine laeso quidve dolens regina deum tot volvere casus insignem pietate virum, tot adire labores impulerit. (select 2!) (lines 8-10)

• anaphora

• asyndeton

• anastrophe

• onomonopoteia

Tantaene animis caelestibus irae? (line 11)

• synchesis

• chiasmus

• metaphor

• simile

(lines 52-54)

Hic vasto rex Aeolus antro luctantis ventos tempestatesque sonoras imperio premit ....

• word picture

• chiasmus

• apostrophe

• asyndeton

Illi indignantes magno cum murmure montis

circum claustra fremunt; (lines 55-56)

• alliteration

• hyperbaton

• transferred epithet

• chiasmus

Ac veluti magno in populo cum saepe coorta est

seditio saevitque animis ignobile vulgus.....; (148-149)

• epic simile

• synchdoche

• polysyndeton

• hyperbole