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Ciceroni Oratio

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How would you describe the EXORDIUM?

a)

attention-getter and audience specific

b)

credibility-getter and audience acceptance

c)

evidence and counter evidence reporting

d)

end of Q.E.D. and call to action

2.

How would you describe la NARRATIO?

a)

pleasing specific audience

b)

credibility getter through proofs

c)

lengthy listing of proofs

d)

credibility getter and reminder of values

3.

What is the most accurate definition of PARTITIO?

a)

wrapping up the thesis and the proofs

b)

like speech title and subtitles

c)

like a demonstration of evidence

d)

a mix of evidence and counter-evidence

4.

what is the best definition of PERORATIO?

a)

attack to the morals and proofs

b)

introduction of the speaker

c)

call to action everlasting impression

d)

rational evaluation of facts

5.

Which is the incorrect order of the parts of Ciceronian speech?

a)

exordium, narratio, partitio

b)

narratio, confimatio, peroratio

c)

exordium, narratio, confirmatio

d)

confirmatio, refutatio, peroratio

6.

what is Q.E.D.?

a)

quid est dementia?

b)

quomodo demonstrandum est?

c)

quod erat demonstrandum?

d)

quis est demonstrandum?

7.

What is the meaning of Q.E.D.?

a)

what is it?

b)

which is proved

c)

that is a good question

d)

which needs to be proven

8.

what can be used for a strong exordium?

a)

personal attack and animated gestures

b)

balance of proofs

c)

straightforward thesis

d)

rhetorical questions and famous sayings

9.

What must be said in the narratio?

a)

thesis and examples

b)

speaker's bio

c)

speaker highlights

d)

proofs and counter proofs

10.

To demonstrate contempt which sounds have greater effect?

a)

the "w" and the "g"

b)

the "o" and the 'u"

c)

the 'r' and the 's"

d)

the "t" and the "z"

11.

who was Verre?

a)

a senator in the Curia

b)

a Roman consul

c)

a governor of a province

d)

a Roman general

12.

According to the passage : "leges, communia iura" What did Verre took away from the citizens?

a)

common spaces

b)

legality

c)

lands

d)

wives

13.

"Sic Semper Tyrannis" is something you would say...

a)

to wish long life...

b)

to wish bad health

c)

to wish prosperity

d)

to wish short life

14.

what is the opposite of VITIUM?

a)

MOS

b)

VIRTUS

c)

BONUS

d)

AMICITIA

15.

"O tempora, O Mores" means...

a)

you miss Asian food

b)

you miss the times when you were little

c)

you miss the times when you had more

d)

you miss the old ways

16.

Allie’s cell phone dropped into the toilet like a falling star. What figure of speech used here?

a)

Simile

b)

Personification

c)

Metaphor

17.

Kathy arrived at the grocery store with an army of children. What figure of speech is used here?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Analogy

c)

Simile

18.

Lilian has a million pairs of shoes in her closet. What figures of speech used here?

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Understatement

c)

Personification

19.
This part of speech give human characteristic to non human entities.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
personification
d)
hyperbole
20.

Name the following figure of speech:

"Firefly fluttering freely"

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

alliteration

21.
"Let us go forth to lead the land we love." (JFK, Inaugural Address)
a)
Alliteration
b)
Apostrophe
c)
Simile
d)
Tmesis
22.

L. 8-9: quare quidquid qualecumque quod = which figure of speech?

a)

alliteration

b)

anaphora

c)

apostrophe

23.

L. 10: maneat = present active subjunctive = what use? Hint: we translated "let it remain enduring for more than one generation"

a)

hortatory (encouraging others, 1st person plural only)

b)

optative (a general wish, 2nd or 3rd person)

c)

jussive (a mild command, 2nd or 3rd person)