Figures of Speech Exercise by Linda Fleming Answers to Figures of Syntax Exercise >> Figures of Rhetoric Exercise Figures of Syntax The below exercise uses lines from the first half of Vergil's Aeneid, Book II as examples of figures of syntax in Vergil's text. Directions: First, match the definitions below with a term from the "Syntax" column. Enter the corresponding letter in the "Definition" column. Then, translate each line of Latin text below to determine what figure of syntax is used in each line. Enter the corresponding line number in the "Corresponding Line Number" column. See the example below. Answers to this exercise can be found here. Definition Syntax Corresponding Line Number 1. c alliteration 209 2. anaphora   3. assonance   4. asyndeton   5. chiasmus   6. ellipsis   7. hendiadys   8. onomatopoeia   9. polysyndeton   10. synchesis   11. tmesis   12. zeugma   Definitions a. two nouns to express one idea g. separation of a compound word into two words b. two nouns used where only one is strictly applicable h. use of unnecessary conjunctions c. repetition of consonant sounds i. omission of connectives d. sound suggests sense j. interlocking word order ABAB e. omission of necessary word(s) k. interior rhyme or repetition of vowel sounds f. repetition of introductory word l. reversed word order ABBA Line Number Latin Text from Vergil's Aeneid, Book II 209 Fit sonitus spumante salo, jamque arva tenebant 211 sibila lambebant linguis vibrantibus ora 218 . . . bis collo squamea circum/terga dati superant 234 vidimus muros, et moenia pandimus urbis 258 inclusos utero Danaos et pinea furtim laxat claustra Sinon 261 Thessandrus Sthenelusque duces, et dirus Ulixes, demissum lapsi per funem, Acamasque, Thoasque 294 hos cape fatorum comites, his moenia quaere 303 ascensu supero, atque arrectis auribus asto 313 Exoritur clamorque virum clangorque tubarum. 337 in flammas et in arma feror, quo tristis Erinys 349 pectora, si vobis audentem extrema cupido 361 Quis cladem illius noctis, quis funera fando/explicet Answers to Figures of Syntax Exercise >> Figures of Rhetoric Exercise

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