WorksheetsVirgil Book 12 (678-695)
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
stat conferre manum Aeneae, stat, quidquid acerbi est (678): what literary device is being used here?
Alliteration
Polyptoton
Asyndeton
Anaphora
neque me indecorem (679) what device is being used here?
Hyperbaton
Litotes
Transferred epithet
Alliteration
hunc, oro, sine me furere ante furorem (680): what device is NOT being used here?
Polyptoton
Anaphora
Assonance
Alliteration
perque hostis, per tela ruit (682): what device is being used and what is the effect?
Anaphora
Polysyndeton
Emphasises determination
Emphasises fear
rapido cursu media agmina rumpit (683): what did Turnus do?
Attacked a herd of cattle
Broke the enemy's spear
Broke the enemy line
Rolled a boulder on the enemy
ac veluti montis saxum de vertice praeceps cum ruit avulsum vento, seu turbidus imber proluit aut annis soluit sublapsa vetustas (684-686): what does not cause the rock to move?
Wind
A storm
Old age
Thunderbolt
ac veluti montis saxum de vertice praeceps cum ruit avulsum vento (684-685): what two things are being compared?
Aeneas
Turnus
A rock
A tree
fertur in abruptum magno mons improbus actu exsultatque solo, silvas armenta virosque involvens secum (687-689): what is not damaged by the boulder?
Forests
Herds
Men
Houses
disiecta per agmina Turnus sic urbis ruit ad muros, ubi plurima fuso sanguine terra madet striduntque hastilibus aurae (689-691): what does Turnus see and hear when he approaches the city?
Blood soaked ground
Blood soaked clothes
Air whistles with arrows
Air shrieks with spears
'parcite iam, Rutuli, et vos tela inhibete, Latini. quaecumque est fortuna, mea est; me verius unum pro vobis foedus luere et decernere ferro.' (693-695): what does Turnus propose?
One-to-one combat
A truce
Breaking the truce
Surrender
