Quiz

 

1. What poetic device is present with the word “Jove” and the words surrounding it in line 72?

A: Hyperbaton

B: Enjambment

C: Asyndeton

D: Synecdoche

 

2. What type of ablative is “filis” in line 68?

A: Ablative of accompaniment

B: Ablative of separation

C: Ablative of means

D: Ablative of manner

 

3. What is special about the meter of line 70?

A: Late caesura

B: Early caesura

C: Dactylic line

D: Spondaic line

 

4. What is the scansion of line 81?

A. DSSS

B. SSDS

C. SSSS

D. SDSS

 

5. What construction is present in line 96 from “sumptis” to “pennis”?

A. Indirect statement

B. Ablative absolute

C. Indirect command

D. Relative clause

 

6. In line 79, how is “aegide” best translated?

A. By Aegeus

B. With the descendent of Aegeus

C. By the descendent of Aegeus

D. From the descendent of Aegeus

 

7. What do you get when you parse “plaudat” in line 97?

A. Third-person, singular, present, active, subjunctive

B. Third-person, singular, present, active, indicative

C. Third-person, singular, imperfect, active, indicative

D. Third-person, singular, present, passive, indicative

 

8. What construction is “exsiluisse fretum” in line 77?

A. Indirect statement

B. Indirect command

C. Ablative absolute

D. Gerundive

 

9. What is the case and case use of “ausis” in line 74?

A. Ablative of means

A. Ablative of means

C. Ablative object of a proposition

D. Dative indirect object

 

10. Across lines 78 and 79, what is missing which is notable? Is there a name for that poetic device?

A. Conjunctions; polysyndeton

B. Conjunctions; asyndeton

C. Caesuras

D. Metrical consistency