Latin scansion Quiz

Question 1

Chiasmus

Answer 1

Words arranged in ABBA order(to emphasize, contrast, create word picture)

Question 2

Ellipsis

Answer 2

Omission of 1+ words to the sense of the sentence, but understood from context. (Usually SUM) (…)

Question 3

Enjambment

Answer 3

Delay of final word/phrase to beginning of next verse (emphasize or make suspense)

Question 4

Interlocked word order

Answer 4

ABAB order (emphasize close connection between thoughts)

Question 5

Onomatopoeia

Answer 5

Use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning

Question 6

Polysyndeton

Answer 6

Use of greater # of conjunctions than necessary

Question 7

Alliteration

Answer 7

Repetition of consonants

Question 8

Anaphora

Answer 8

Repetition of word or phrase

Question 9

Assonance

Answer 9

Repetition of a vowel sound

Question 10

Asyndeton

Answer 10

Not using conjunctions

Question 11

Litotes

Answer 11

Understatement w/double negative

Question 12

Metonymy

Answer 12

Subst. of object for a related object

Question 13

Synechdoche

Answer 13

Part of a whole

Question 14

Meter

Answer 14

Measured arrangement of syll. In reg. Rhythmic pattern

Question 15

Dactyl

Answer 15

__ u u

Long and two shorts

Question 16

Spondee

Answer 16

___ ___

Two longs

Question 17

Last two feet?

Answer 17

Dactyl, spondee

Question 18

Foot

Answer 18

A completed dactyl or spondee, 6 in all

Question 19

Long mark if

Answer 19

Followed by a double consonant
Is a dipthong
Has a long mark

Question 20

Dipthongs

Answer 20

A combination of the following vowels

ae au ei oe ou ui

Question 21

Short if

Answer 21

Vowel followed by one consonant
No long mark
Vowel before another vowel (if it isnt a dipthong or the H is short)

Question 22

Ellision

Answer 22

If word ends with a vowel, dipthong, or m (am em um)

AND next letter is a vowel or an H the ending part elides with the word that follows it. Usually marked long

Question 23

Dactyllic Hexameter

Answer 23

Always ends with dactyl, spondee

Usually begins with dactyl

Question 24

Warnings

Answer 24

i at beginning of word sometimes means j (ex word starts with iu=ju=not a vowel

Qu= 1letter so you dont count the u as vowel

Question 25

Apostrophe

Answer 25

Adress to some person/thing that isnt present