Georgics - Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

What nationality was Virgil? correct answers -He was a Roman poet. -He was the best. What happened when Virgil was 11? correct answers -Julius Caesar ruled Gaul. -He was raised on a farm. -He travel to many cities, since he was studying to become a lawyer (he never pursued the career though). What did Antony do to Virgil? correct answers -Antony stripped Virgil and his family of many lands. -Anotony had to do this in order to reward his soldiers with land for fighting in the civil ...

What is the greatest epic poem from Ancient Rome? correct answers the Aeneid What is the Aeneid? correct answers one of the most profoundly influential works of all classical literature in the later Western cultural and literary tradition How can the Aeneid be described in ways that sounds off putting? correct answers a work of national propaganda for a nation that no longer exists and a 12 book poem about the importance of doing your duty How can the Aeneid be described? correct answer...

Praxis 5038 English Lang. Literature, Novels/Authors Already Passed James Fenimore Cooper First novel 1820 - famous series - Leatherstocking Tales (5) incl. The Pioneers (1823), The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Prairie (1827), The Pathfinder (1840), The Deerslayer (1841). First book was Precaution, which attempted to Satirize Jane Austen's novels. Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper - 1826 Main character- Natty Bumppo -nickname: Hawkeye - brave and resourceful woodsman armed with un...

'Part of its relevance is that it is the story of a human being who knew [......] and [............], [....] and the loss of [....], whose life was ruled by his sense of [....] to the gods, his people and his family' correct answers defeat, dispossession, love, love, duty, David West '[The Aeneid is] full of human beings [........] as human beings do' correct answers behaving, David West 'The 'Aeneid' presents a heroic view of the life of man in all its [.........] and [.......], bu...

Praxis 5038 Latest Update with Verified Solutions James Fenimore Cooper Wrote famous series Leatherstocking Tales: The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer. First book was Precaution, which attempted to satirize Jane Austens novels. Last of the Mohicans Main character-Natty Bumppo (Hawkeye), setting 1757 Upstate NY, Seven Years War Harriet Beecher Stowe Born 1811 CT, wrote Uncle Toms Cabin Uncle Toms Cabin Story of a slave sold from KY into a life of...

A discussion of the use of the Golden Age myth in: - Hesiod's Works and Days - Aratus' Phaenomena - Lucretius' De Rerum Natura - Virgil's Georgics - Ovid's Ars Amatoria

English Language Arts Content Knowledge (5038) Simile - Compares two unlike things using the words 'like', or 'as'. For example, the dog smells like dirty socks. Metaphor - Compares two unlike things without using the words 'like' or 'as'. In the image, life is being compared to a pathway that meanders. Life is not a straightforward path. Assonance - The repetition of vowel sounds to create rhyme in phrases or sentences. Alliteration - The repetition of a consonant. It helps ...

Summary Nationalism and Italy in Vergil's Georgics

A summary of several elements in the Aristaeus Epyllion of the Georgics 4

Comprehensive commentary and literature review on the proem to Virgil's 3rd Georgic: - Metapoetic relevance - Proem in the middle - general commentary - Callimachus - Pindar