WorksheetsOrpheus et Eurydice - Literary Devices, Pt. II
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 2hrs 50mins
Which literary device is shown here?
58 bracchiaque intendens prendique et prendere ceertans
simile
hyperbaton
polyptoton
litotes
Which literary device is shown here?
64 non aliter stupuit gemina nece coniugis Orpheus
65 quam tria qui timidus, medio portante catenas,
66 colla canis vidit, quem non pavor ante reliquit,
67 quam natura prior saxo per corpus oborto,
68 quique in se crimen traxit voluitque videri
69 Olenos esse nocens, tuque, o confisa figurae,
70 infelix Lethaea, tuae, iunctissima quondam
71 pectora, nunc lapides, quos umida sustinet Ide.
simile
anaphora
hyperbaton
litotes
Which literary device is shown here?
79 ..omnemque refugerat Orpheus
80 femineam Venerem, seu quod male cesserat illi,
dactylic line
metonymy
alliteration
golden line
Which literary device is shown here?
44 ...inque tuo sedisti, Sisyphe, saxo.
asyndeton
polyptoton
chiasmus
apostrophe
Which literary device is shown here?
53 carpitur aclivis per muta silentia trames,
54 arduus, obscurus, caligine densus opaca.
hendiadys
pleonasm
synchysis
enjambment
Which literary device is shown here?
50 hanc simul et legem Rhodopeius accipit heros,
metaphor
personification
onomatopoeia
zeugma
Which literary device is shown here?
64 non aliter stupuit gemina nece coniugis Orpheus,
65 quam tria qui timidus, medio portante catenas,
assonance
antithesis
litotes
tricolon crescens
Which literary device is shown here?
69 ...tuque, o confisa figurae,
70 infelix Lethaea, tuae, iunctissima quondam
prolepsis
tricolon crescens
spondaic line
polysyndeton
Which literary device is shown here?
70 infelix Lethaea, tuae, iunctissima quondam,
71 pectora, nunc lapides, quos umida sustinet Ide.
antithesis
hyperbaton
enjambment
consonance
Which literary device is shown here?
66 colla canis vidit, quem non pavor ante reliquit,
67 quam natura prior saxo per corpus oborto,
tricolon
hendiadys
alliteration
tmesis
Which literary device is shown here?
54 arduus, obscurus, caligine densus opaca,
asyndeton
zeugma
chiasmus
apostrophe
