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WorksheetsAeneid book 6 review
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 13mins
navita quos iam inde ut Stygia prospexit ab unda 385
per tacitum nemus ire pedemque advertere ripae,
sic prior adgreditur dictis atque increpat ultro:
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What is the subject of the verbs "adgreditur" and "increpat"?
Navita
Stygia
Sybil
Aeneas
What does "navita" mean?
boat
boatman
sails
navigate
What is Charon?
a three-headed dog
Hades
the ferryman of the underworld
one of the furies
Who is trying to get across the river Styx?
Charon
Aeneas
Odysseus
Julius Caesar
Charon
ferryman of the underworld
Anchises
Aeneas' guide
Sybil
Aeneas' father
Cerberus
guardian of the underworld
Tisiphone
one of the furies
Aeneas goes to the Sybil's temple
Aeneas finds the golden bough
Aeneas and the Sybil meet Charon
Aeneas sees Dido
Anchises shows Aeneas the future Romans
What is the epic characteristic "katabasis"?
a hero's to the underworld
an invocation of the muse
hospitality shown to a guest
a god in disguise
What literary device is the line pattern ABBA? (e.g. ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country)
metonomy
metaphor
chiasmus
tmesis
diphthong
dactyl
- u u
long-short-short
spondee
neuter plural "a"
long
vowel before two consonants
two vowels pronounced together= long
- -
long-long
short
corpora
bodies
carina
evil/forbidden
viva
living
nefas
to carry
vectare
boat
What characters from mythology journeyed to the underworld (more than one)?
Theseus and Pirithous
Hercules
Aeneas
Patroclus
Match the following with the reason they went to the underworld
Theseus and Pirithous
to kidnap Cerberus
Hercules
to kidnap Proserpina
Aeneas
to see his father
Orpheus
to find his dead wife
ire
grove
ripae
shore
advertere
to go
nemus
to turn toward
pedem
foot/step
