WorksheetsVirgil Book 12 (659-677)
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
praeterea regina, tui fidisima (659): what do you notice about the placement of tui?
Emphatic placement
Hyperbaton
Enjambement
occidit ipsa sua lucemque exterrita fugit (660): what is being emphasised here?
Death of Aeneas
Death of Turnus
Death of the queen
Death of the Trojans
circum hos utrimque (662): what is the most accurate translation of these words?
Around all the sides
Around them on all sides
Around the side
Around those sides
stant densae strictisque seges mucronibus horret ferrea (663-664): what is being compared to what here?
Horrible wild animals
A group of stags
A field of corn
A battalion of soldiers
obtutu tacito stetit; aestuat (666): what sound is most prominent here?
o
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s
a
pudor mixtoque insania luctu et furiis agitatus amor et conscia virtus (667-8): what is being described here?
Turnus' fighting skills
Turnus' armour
Turnus' controversial opinions
Turnus' emotions
ut primum discussae umbrae et lux reddita menti (669): what is being compared here?
Light returning after shadow
A cloudy day
Clarity of mind
A mountain
ecce autem flammis inter tabulata volutus ad caelum undabat vertext turrimque tenebat (672-3): what is being described here?
The Italian army
The city on fire
A volcano
A thunderstorm
turrimque tenebat, turrim compactis trabibus qua eduxerat ipse (673-4): what literary device is being used here?
Anaphora
Personification
Historic Present
Polysyndeton
iam iam fata, soror, superant, absiste morari (676): what is the impact of the anaphora?
Conveys confusion
Conveys Turnus' wish to delay
Conveys urgency
Conveys peacefulness
