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Orpheus et Eurydice - Literary Devices, Pt. II

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 2hrs 50mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which literary device is shown here?

58 bracchiaque intendens prendique et prendere ceertans

a)

simile

b)

hyperbaton

c)

polyptoton

d)

litotes

2.

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.

a)

simile

b)

anaphora

c)

hyperbaton

d)

litotes

3.

Which literary device is shown here?

79 ..omnemque refugerat Orpheus

80 femineam Venerem, seu quod male cesserat illi,

a)

dactylic line

b)

metonymy

c)

alliteration

d)

golden line

4.

Which literary device is shown here?

44 ...inque tuo sedisti, Sisyphe, saxo.

a)

asyndeton

b)

polyptoton

c)

chiasmus

d)

apostrophe

5.

Which literary device is shown here?

53 carpitur aclivis per muta silentia trames,

54 arduus, obscurus, caligine densus opaca.

a)

hendiadys

b)

pleonasm

c)

synchysis

d)

enjambment

6.

Which literary device is shown here?

50 hanc simul et legem Rhodopeius accipit heros,

a)

metaphor

b)

personification

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

zeugma

7.

Which literary device is shown here?

64 non aliter stupuit gemina nece coniugis Orpheus,

65 quam tria qui timidus, medio portante catenas,

a)

assonance

b)

antithesis

c)

litotes

d)

tricolon crescens

8.

Which literary device is shown here?

69 ...tuque, o confisa figurae,

70 infelix Lethaea, tuae, iunctissima quondam

a)

prolepsis

b)

tricolon crescens

c)

spondaic line

d)

polysyndeton

9.

Which literary device is shown here?

70 infelix Lethaea, tuae, iunctissima quondam,

71 pectora, nunc lapides, quos umida sustinet Ide.

a)

antithesis

b)

hyperbaton

c)

enjambment

d)

consonance

10.

Which literary device is shown here?

66 colla canis vidit, quem non pavor ante reliquit,

67 quam natura prior saxo per corpus oborto,

a)

tricolon

b)

hendiadys

c)

alliteration

d)

tmesis

11.

Which literary device is shown here?

54 arduus, obscurus, caligine densus opaca,

a)

asyndeton

b)

zeugma

c)

chiasmus

d)

apostrophe