IB Latin students will take their final exam on April 30th, May 1st, and May 2nd
Day 1- April 30th-
Part 1- Scansion- you will scan a series of lines from
Vergil. You will NOT be allowed to use your scansion notes on the midterm.
Remember-
1)
Synizesis- two vowels belonging to different
syllables are sometimes pronounced together as 1 syllable
2) If a word ending in a vowel, um, am, em, or im and the following word is es or est, the first word stays intact and the āeā in es or est gets elided.
Literary Devices- you will define a series of literary
devices (multiple choice)
Good literary devices to study for this section:
Irony, Polysyndeton, Paradox, Collocation, Litotes,
Transferred Epithet, Alliteration, Assonance, Tone, Enjambment, Juxtaposition,
Metaphor, Simile, Symbolism, Personification, Allusion, Onomatopoeia,
Foreshadowing, Synecdoche, Tricolon (ascending/descending), Hendiadys,
Asyndeton, Hyperbole
Day 2- May 1st-
Vergil/Caesar- You will be answering questions about a
passage of Vergil or a passage of Caesar. Questions about the Vergil passage will
involve interpretations of the content of the passage, translating and scanning
lines, and figures of speech/literary devices (remember that things like
repetition, meter, and word order/word placement count as figures of speech).
Questions about the Caesar passage will be about the content of the passage,
history, and will involve translating lines.
Day 3- May 2nd
Ovid- You will be given a passage of Ovid to translate using
a dictionary.