Aeneid 7 poetic techniques | 323-405

Question 1

haec ubi dicta dedit, terras horrenda petivit;
luctificam Allecto dirarum ab sede dearum

Answer 1

assonance of i sound

Question 2

infernisque ciet tenebris, cui tristia bella

Answer 2

personification and transferred epithet of tristia

Question 3

iraeque insidiaeque et crimina noxia cordi.

Answer 3

no caesura

Question 4

odit et ipse pater Pluton, odere sorores

Answer 4

polyptoton of odit and odere, positioning of verb

Question 5

Tartareae monstrum: tot sese vertit in ora,
tam saevae facies, tot pullulat atra colubres.

Answer 5

hyperbaton of monstrum, tricolon

Question 6

hunc mihi da proprium, virgo sata Nocte, laborem,
hanc operam, ne noster honos infractave cedat
fama loco,

Answer 6

anaphora of hunc and hanc, enclosed word order of hunc proprium laborem, military language of cedat loco

Question 7

tu potes unanimos armare in proelia fratres
atque odiis versare domos, tu verbera tectis
funereasque inferre faces

Answer 7

enclosed word order of unanimos fratres, tricolon of armare, versare and inferre, synedoche of tectis

Question 8

tibi nomina mille,
mille nocendi artes

Answer 8

hyperbole of mille, chiastic structure

Question 9

fecundum concute pectus,
disice compositam pacem, sere crimina belli;

Answer 9

tricolon of concute, disice and sere

Question 10

arma velit poscatque simul rapiatque iuventus.

Answer 10

tricolon of velit, poscat and rapiat

Question 11

exim Gorgoneis Allecto infecta venenis

Answer 11

enclosed word order of Gorgoneis and venenis

Question 12

principio Latium et Laurentis tecta tyranni
celsa petit,

Answer 12

synedoche of tecta, synchises of Laurentis tecta tyranni celsa

Question 13

tacitumque obsedit limen Amatae,

Answer 13

personification and epithet of limen

Question 14

quam super adventu Teucrum Turnique hymenaeis

Answer 14

chiasmus of adventu Teucrum Turnique hymenaeis, metonymy of hymenaeis

Question 15

femineae ardentem curaeque iraeque coquebant

Answer 15

hyperbaton of ardentem, assonance of ae, metaphor of coquebant

Question 16

huic dea caeruleis unum de crinibus anguem

Answer 16

juxtaposition of huic dea, synchises of caeruleis unum crinibus anguem

Question 17

conicit, inque sinum praecordia ad intima subdit,

Answer 17

enjambment of conicit

Question 18

quo furibunda domum monstro permisceat omnem.

Answer 18

synchises of quo domum monstro omnem, allusion to book 4 of furibunda

Question 19

ille inter vestis et levia pectora lapsus

Answer 19

enclosed word order of ille and lapsus, assonance of s, imagery of movement

Question 20

fit tortile collo
autum ingens coluber, fit longae taenia vittae

Answer 20

anaphora of fit, enclosed word order of tortile and aurum

Question 21

innectitque comas et membris lubricus errat

Answer 21

chiastic structure

Question 22

ac dum prima lues udo sublapsa veneno

Answer 22

metaphor of lues