Question
Roland Grubb Kent argued that “every pluperfect contains in it the essence of” this literary device, highlighting its use in the line “After he had touched the deep waters and had come to the open sea.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Give the two-word Greek language term for that rhetorical device of inverting the temporal order of phrases. This device is famously exemplified in the line, “Let us die, and charge into the thick of the fight.”
ANSWER: hysteron proteron [prompt on later earlier; prompt on hyperbaton]
[10e] Kent wrote that the grammar of the Latin language, which this author used to write The Aeneid, enabled him to utilize hysteron proteron in a way that English translators struggled to faithfully replicate.
ANSWER: Virgil [or Vergil, or Publius Vergilius Maro]
[10m] While not strictly hysteron proteron, Kent points out an instance in Book VI [“six”] of The Aeneid in which events in this man’s life are told out of order. The Salian hymn in The Aeneid celebrates this man strangling his adversary.
ANSWER: Hercules [accept Herakles] (The Aeneid describes Hercules’ third and fourth labors before his second. Hercules strangled Cacus.)
<Darren Petrosino, European Literature>
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