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| cento | A literary work composed entirely of verses or passages from other authors, often rearranged to create new meaning. |
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| historical events | Significant occurrences in history that are referenced or alluded to in a text. |
| influential people | Significant historical or literary figures whose actions or ideas shaped events or culture. |
| literary works | Written compositions such as poems, plays, or prose that are referenced or alluded to in a text. |
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| Christian themes | Religious subjects and ideas based on Christian doctrine and theology that appear in literary works. |
| classical forms | Literary structures and poetic techniques inherited from ancient Roman and Greek literature. |
| Medieval Latin poetry | Latin poetry composed during the Middle Ages that often blended classical literary forms with Christian religious themes. |
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| carmina epigraphica | Latin inscriptional poems, typically found on monuments, tombs, or public structures, often commemorating individuals or events. |
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| Latin literature | Written works composed in the Latin language, including poetry, prose, and dramatic texts from ancient Rome and the Roman world. |
| Latin texts | Written works originally composed in Latin, which students analyze and interpret in the AP Latin course. |
| textual evidence | Specific passages, phrases, or details from a text that support an interpretation or argument about the text's meaning. |
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| exile | Forced banishment from one's homeland, as experienced by Ovid when sent to Tomis. |
| Ovid | Roman poet (43 BCE-17 CE) known for works including the Metamorphoses and Tristia, exiled by Augustus. |
| Tomis | A remote settlement on the Black Sea to which Ovid was exiled by Augustus. |
| Tristia | A collection of elegiac poems written by Ovid during his exile, expressing his suffering and longing for Rome. |
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| dactylic pentameter | A metrical line consisting of five dactylic feet, where each dactyl contains one long syllable followed by two short syllables. |
| elegiac couplet | A pair of lines consisting of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter, commonly used in Latin elegiac poetry. |
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| Latin texts | Written works originally composed in Latin, which students analyze and interpret in the AP Latin course. |
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| features | Distinctive characteristics or elements that define and identify a particular literary genre or text. |
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| features | Distinctive characteristics or elements that define and identify a particular literary genre or text. |
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| features | Distinctive characteristics or elements that define and identify a particular literary genre or text. |
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| features | Distinctive characteristics or elements that define and identify a particular literary genre or text. |
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| pastoral poetry | A literary genre that idealizes and celebrates rural life, nature, and the lives of shepherds. |
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| ut clause | A subordinate clause introduced by ut that expresses the result or purpose of an action, typically containing a verb in the subjunctive mood. |
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| Neo-Latin poetry | Poetry written in Latin during the Renaissance and early modern periods, reviving classical Latin literary forms and styles. |
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| epitaphs | Inscriptions or verses composed to commemorate a deceased person, typically found on tombstones or monuments. |
| inscriptions | Written texts carved, engraved, or written on a surface such as stone, metal, or other materials, often serving commemorative or informational purposes. |
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| Christian Latin poetry | Poetry composed in Latin that reflects Christian themes, theology, and religious perspectives. |
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| ancient novels | Extended prose narratives from antiquity that tell fictional stories, often featuring adventure, romance, or complex plots. |
| asyndeton | The omission of conjunctions between grammatical units of the same type that creates a hurried effect within a list. |
| comedy | A dramatic genre intended to entertain through humor, often depicting ordinary characters and situations with a lighthearted or satirical tone. |
| conjunction | Words that connect words, phrases, or clauses together in a sentence. |
| dialogues | A literary form presenting a conversation between two or more characters, often used to explore philosophical or rhetorical ideas. |
| didactic poetry | Poetry written with the primary purpose of instructing or teaching the reader about a subject, often philosophical or technical in nature. |
| ending | The suffix attached to a verb stem that indicates person, number, tense, voice, and mood. |
| epigrams | Brief, pointed poems or inscriptions, often witty or satirical in nature, typically expressing a single thought or observation. |
| genre | A category or type of literary work with distinctive characteristics, conventions, and features. |
| historiography | The writing of history; the study and interpretation of historical events and sources in Latin literature. |
| indicative | The mood of a verb used to express facts, statements, or questions about reality. |
| love poems | Lyric poetry focused on themes of romantic love, desire, and relationships, a significant genre in Latin literature. |
| mood | The grammatical category of Latin verbs that indicates the mode or manner of the action, such as indicative (factual), subjunctive (hypothetical), or imperative (command). |
| number | The grammatical distinction between singular and plural forms of nouns, adjectives, and pronouns in Latin. |
| oratory | The art of formal public speaking and rhetoric; in Latin literature, speeches and rhetorical compositions designed to persuade or move an audience. |
| person | The grammatical category of Latin verbs that indicates whether the subject is first person (I/we), second person (you), or third person (he/she/it/they). |
| polysyndeton | The overuse of conjunctions between grammatical units of the same type that creates a slowing effect for emphasis. |
| repetition | The deliberate reuse of words, phrases, or grammatical structures in a text to create emphasis, rhythm, or stylistic effect. |
| stem | The base form of a word to which endings are added to indicate grammatical information such as case, number, and degree. |
| stylistic device | A technique or literary tool used by an author to create a particular effect or enhance the meaning and impact of a text. |
| tense | The grammatical category of Latin verbs indicating the time of an action (present, imperfect, perfect, pluperfect, future, or future perfect). |
| tragedy | A dramatic genre depicting serious events and the downfall of a protagonist, typically involving noble characters and evoking pity and fear. |
| verb | Words that express actions, states, or conditions and are central to Latin sentence structure. |
| verbal | A word form derived from a verb that functions as another part of speech, such as a participle, gerund, or infinitive. |
| voice | The grammatical category of Latin verbs indicating whether the subject performs the action (active voice) or receives the action (passive voice). |
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| ablative case | A Latin grammatical case with multiple functions, including showing the means, agent, manner, time, place, or separation in a sentence. |
| hyperbaton | The intentional rearrangement of words from their usual or expected order, used as a stylistic technique in Latin poetry and prose. |
| noun | Words that name persons, places, things, or ideas and function as subjects, objects, or complements in Latin sentences. |
| stylistic device | A technique or literary tool used by an author to create a particular effect or enhance the meaning and impact of a text. |
| word order | The arrangement and sequence of words in a Latin sentence, which can be manipulated as a stylistic device to create emphasis or convey meaning. |
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| dactyls | A metrical foot consisting of one long syllable followed by two short syllables (– ∪ ∪). |
| iambs | A metrical foot consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable (∪ –). |
| meter | The regular, predictable pattern of long and short syllables that forms the rhythmic structure of Latin poetry. |
| spondees | A metrical foot consisting of two long syllables (– –). |
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| adjective | Words that modify nouns and must agree with them in case, number, and gender in Latin. |
| agreement | The grammatical correspondence between adjectives and the nouns they modify in case, number, and gender. |
| case | The grammatical form of a Latin noun, pronoun, or adjective that indicates its function in a sentence (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, or vocative). |
| elegy | A genre of Latin love poetry characterized by personal emotions and intimate relationships, typically written in elegiac couplets. |
| gender | The grammatical classification of Latin nouns, adjectives, and pronouns as masculine, feminine, or neuter. |
| genre | A category or type of literary work with distinctive characteristics, conventions, and features. |
| number | The grammatical distinction between singular and plural forms of nouns, adjectives, and pronouns in Latin. |
| pronoun | Words that replace or refer to nouns and have gender, number, and case forms in Latin. |
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| allusions | Indirect or implied references to people, literary works, or historical events that readers are expected to recognize. |
| Arion | A legendary Greek musician saved from drowning by a dolphin, featured in Ovid's Fasti Book 3. |
| Greco-Roman mythology | The combined body of myths and legends from both Greek and Roman cultures, often shared or adapted between the two civilizations. |
| Pantheon | The complete collection of gods worshipped by a particular culture or religion. |
| polytheistic religion | A religious system based on the belief in and worship of multiple gods. |
| references | Direct mentions or citations of specific people, places, events, or concepts in a text. |