Literary Devices Practice: Aeneid Book 4

Interea magno misceri murmure caelum 160

incipit, insequitur commixta grandine nimbus,

et Tyrii comites passim et Troiana iuventus

Dardaniusque nepos Veneris diversa per agros

tecta metu petiere; ruunt de montibus amnes.

What literary device is found in line 160?

• alliteration

• chiasmus

• asyndeton

• anaphora

Interea magno misceri murmure caelum 160

incipit, insequitur commixta grandine nimbus,

et Tyrii comites passim et Troiana iuventus

Dardaniusque nepos Veneris diversa per agros

tecta metu petiere; ruunt de montibus amnes.

What literary device is found in line 160?

• apostrophe

• chiasmus

• tmesis

• onomatopoeia

Interea magno misceri murmure caelum 160

incipit, insequitur commixta grandine nimbus,

et Tyrii comites passim et Troiana iuventus

Dardaniusque nepos Veneris diversa per agros

tecta metu petiere; ruunt de montibus amnes.

What literary device is found in line 161?

• polysyndeton

• enjambment

• hyperbaton

• alliteration

Interea magno misceri murmure caelum 160

incipit, insequitur commixta grandine nimbus,

et Tyrii comites passim et Troiana iuventus

Dardaniusque nepos Veneris diversa per agros

tecta metu petiere; ruunt de montibus amnes.

What literary device is found in lines 162-163?

• anaphora

• polysyndeton

• tmesis

• litotes

Interea magno misceri murmure caelum 160

incipit, insequitur commixta grandine nimbus,

et Tyrii comites passim et Troiana iuventus

Dardaniusque nepos Veneris diversa per agros

tecta metu petiere; ruunt de montibus amnes.

What literary device is found in lines 164?

• synecdoche

• anaphora

• anaphora

• litotes

speluncam Dido dux et Troianus eandem

deveniunt. prima et Tellus et pronuba Iuno

dant signum; fulsere ignes et conscius aether

conubiis summoque ulularunt vertice Nymphae.

What literary device is found in the bolded line?

• anaphora

• chiasmus

• polysyndeton

• simile

speluncam Dido dux et Troianus eandem

deveniunt. prima et Tellus et pronuba Iuno

dant signum; fulsere ignes et conscius aether

conubiis summoque ulularunt vertice Nymphae.

What literary device is found in the bolded line?

• alliteration

• synchesis

• onomatopoeia

• synecdoche

ille dies primus leti primusque malorum

causa fuit; neque enim specie famave moveturnec iam furtivum Dido meditatur amorem:

coniugium vocat, hoc praetexit nomine culpam.

What literary device is found in the bolded line?

• transferred epithet

• personification

• chiasmus

• apostrophe