WorksheetsVirgil Book 12 (628-640)
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
ingruit Aeneas Italis et proelia miscet, et nos saeva manu mittamus funera Teucris: what is 'saeva manu' an example of?
Epithet
Transferred Epithet
Metaphor
Simile
nec numero inferior pugnae neque honore recedes: what literary device can you spot is being used here?
Polyptoton
Anaphora
Hyperbaton
Polysyndeton
Turnus ad haec: what is unusual about this line of poetry?
It is in the first person
There is no subject
It contains an infinitive
It is incomplete
cum prima per artem foedera turbasti: what is interesting about the verb here?
It is truncated/shortened
It is present tense
It is pluperfect tense
It is emphatically placed
teque haec in bella dedisti: is 'bella' singular or plural?
Singular
Plural
et nunc nequiquam fallis dea: what literary device is being used here?
Personification
Asyndeton
Alliteration
Anaphora
sed quis Olympo demissam tantos volvit te ferre labores: what literary device is being used for the underlined words?
Aliiteration
Polysyndeton
Hyperbaton
Asyndeton
an fratris miseri letum ut crudele videres: what case are the underlined words?
Accusative
Dative
Genitive
Vocative
vidi oculos ante ipse meos me voce vocantem Murranum: what literary device is being used here?
Polyptoton
Polysyndeton
Personification
Asyndeton
ingentem atque ingenti vulnere victum: which technique is NOT being used here?
Hyperbaton
Alliteration
Asyndeton
Polyptoton
