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Figures of Speech: Rhetoric Exercises

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This site is a great exercise that helps students practice identifying and translating rhetorical devices in Latin poetry. Uses examples from Book II of Vergil's Aeneid.

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Concepts
figures of speech, irony, oxymoron, personification
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Additional Tags
euphemism, hysteron proteron, metonymy, pleonasm, prolepsis, synecdoche, metaphor, aeneid, latin, latin classics, latin literature, latin poetry, vergil, apostrophe, publius vergilius maro, simile
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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