WorksheetsBaucis et Philemon, Pt. II literary devices
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 50mins
Which literary device is shown here?
721 haec mihi non vani (neque erat, cur fallere vellent)
722 narravere senes;
synchysis
anaphora
litotes
simile
Which literary device is shown here?
724 "cura deum di sint, et qui coluere, colantur."
hyperbole
polyptoton
alliteration
metaphor
Which literary device is shown here?
686 ille celer penna tardos aetate fatigat
juxtaposition
syncope/syncopation
polysyndeton
anaphora
Which literary device is shown here?
680 sponte sua per seque vident succrescere vina.
enjambment
polysyndeton
assonance
alliteration
Which literary device is shown here?
695 tantum aberant summo, quantum semel ire sagitta
696 missa potest...
zeugma
simile
onomatopoeia
personification
Which literary device is shown here?
698 dumque ea mirantur, dum deflent fata suorum,
prolepsis
golden line
foreshadowing
anaphora
Which literary device is shown here?
714 ...frondere Philemona Baucis,
715 Baucida conspexit senior frondere Philemon
consonance
asyndeton
aliiteration
polysyndeton
Which literary device is shown here?
716 iamque super geminos crescente cacumine vultus
717 mutua, dum licuit, reddebant dicta "vale" que
718 "o coniunx" dixere simul, simul abdita texit
719 ora frutex...
prolepsis
hyperbaton
antithesis
metonymy
Which literary device is shown here?
714 ...frondere Philemon Baucis
715 Baucida conspexit senior frondere Philemon.
transferred epithet
pleonasm
chiasmus
polyptoton
Which literary device is shown here?
718 "o coniunx" dixere simul, simul abdita texit
719 ora frutex...
synecdoche
onomatopoeia
tricolon crescens
metaphor
