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Quiz

A short quiz on meter, grammer, and poetic devices

Question 1: What is the meter of line 368?

                     tantum ego tē superō. nec nōn in corpore nostrō

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a) DDSD

b) DDSS

c) SDDS

d) SDSD

Question 2: What poetic device can be seen in line 362?

                      ūtilis; ingenium est quod eget moderāmine nostrō;

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a) Chiasmus

b) Elision

c) Metaphor

d) Enjambment

Question 3: What the case and case use of the word "mīlite" in line 367?

                      rēmigis officium, quantō dux mīlite māior,


a) Dative of Disadvantage

b) Ablative of Means

c) Ablative of Comparison

d) Ablative of Agent

Question 4: What is the most obvious poetic device in lines 375-377

                      per spēs nunc sociās cāsūraque moenia Trōum          

                      perque deōs ōrō, quōs hostī nūper adēmī,

                      per sī quid superest, quod sit sapienter agendum,


a) Metaphor

b) Litotes

c) Polyptoton

d) Anaphora

Question 5: In those same lines, what other poetic device could be argued to be present?


a) Metonymy

b) Synecdoche

c) Tricolon Crescens

d) Transferred Epithet

Question 6: In lines 375 to 381, the last 7 lines of Ulysses’ speech, there are two anaphoras, one after the other. What purpose do those poetic devices do in terms of enhancing the Latin?


a) The two anaphoras make the end of the speech seem more climactic and exciting, which the end of any long speech should be.

b) The two anaphoras make Ulysses sound more smart, which is the basis of the whole speech.

c) The anaphoras make the last few lines of the speech easier to remember, so the judges will think of him while deciding.

d) The anaphoras serve no purpose.

Question 7: What two words are juxtaposed in line 367?

                      rēmigis officium, quantō dux mīlite māior,


a) rēmigis and officium

b) quantō and dux

c) quantō and māior

d) dux and mīlite

Question 8: What is the meter of line 388? (long marks have been excluded)

                      hoc' ait 'utendum est in me mihi, quique cruore

 

a) DSDD

b) DSSD

c) SSDD

d) SSDS

Question 9: What poetic device is present in line 389?

                      saepe Phrygum maduit, dominī nunc caede madēbit,


a) Asyndeton

b) Polyptoton

c) Polysyndeton

d) Juxtaposition

Question 10: What metrical device is present in line 363?

                        tū vīrēs sine mente geris, mihi cūra futūrī;


a) Midline Caesura

b) Late Midline Caesura

c) Elision

d) No device is present

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