WorksheetsDeucalion & Pyrrha 5-6
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 22mins
What is the scansion of this line?
Nulla mora est; adeunt pariter Cephisidăs undās
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What is the scansion for this line?
Dixerat, et flebant. Placuit caeleste precari
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What figure of speech can be found in these lines?
Haec quoque adhuc vitae non est fiducia nostrae
certa satis; terrent etiamnum nubila mentem.
Synchesis
Chiasmus
Anaphora
Praeteritio
What figure of speech can be found in these lines?
Quis tibi, si sine me fatis erepta fuisses,
nunc animus, miseranda, foret? Quo sola timorem
ferre modo posses? Quo consolante doleres?
Tricolon
Anaphora
Rhetorical Question
All the Above
What do we learn from these lines?
Haec quoque adhuc vitae non est fiducia nostrae
certa satis; terrent etiamnum nubila mentem.
Deucalion does not feel safe
Deucalion cannot find his wife
It is still raining heavily
There is no land visible
What do we learn from these lines?
Namque ego, crede mihi, si te quoque pontus haberet,
te sequerer, coniunx, et me quoque pontus haberet.
Deucalion refused to live without his wife
Pyrrha drowned in the sea
Deucalion & Pyrrha are lost at sea
Deucalion drowned in the sea
Identify the subjunctive use:
O utinam possim populos reparare paternis
artibus atque animas formatae infundere terrae!
Optative
Potential
Purpose Clause
Relative Clause
To whom do these lines allude?
O utinam possim populos reparare paternis
artibus atque animas formatae infundere terrae!
Prometheus
Cronus
Zeus
Daedalus
"restat", "visum (est)" and "placuit" are all examples of...
Syncopated Forms
Deponent Verbs
Impersonal Verbs
Gerundives
Nulla mora est; adeunt pariter Cephisidăs undās,
ut nondum liquidas, sic iam vada nota secantes.
From these lines we learn that Cephisus is...
a river
a mountain
a human
a nymph
Inde ubi libatos inroravere liquores
vestibus et capiti, flectunt vestigia sanctae
ad delubra deae, quorum fastigia turpi
pallebant musco stabantque sine ignibus arae.
From these lines we learn that Deucalion & Pyrrha are preparing to...
wash their clothes
address the goddess
drink libations
build a new house
