Rhetorical Devices In The Aeneid

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Vergil, in his work, The Aeneid, uses many rhetorical devices, word order and meter to add details to the meaning if the text. One of the rhetorical devices he uses is a simile (Ac-mulcet 1.148-153). Just before this passage, the winds overturned the sea causing Aeneas and his comrades to be close to death, in the simile the action of the sea is compared to a riot of a peasant crowd in which weapons fly from the enraged people. The venerable man who comes who calms the crowd with his words is compared to Neptune calming the sea. Also, the way in which the crowd falls silent is related to the crashing and stillness of the sea. Vergil keeps a consistent meter throughout all his books of the Aeneid and the same is held through in this passage.

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