OCR A2 Latin Verse paper - 17th June 2013

Same I'm doing Aeneid and Ovid as well.

Does anyone have any idea what sort of standard/how difficult the paper is going to be? I've looked at past papers when they were doing elegaics instead of hexametres and they seemed to be easier to what my teacher has been giving me I don't know whether it's because elegaics are generally easier or the poems my teacher has been giving me were too difficult

I don't really know because I think this is the first time they've done book 4 and metamorphoses. But tbh usually when it's a new thing the questions are relatively easier as they're trying to 'test' out the new content. Could be wrong but that's what I find!

Do you have any ideas on what specific questions will come up for Aeneid?

Virgil questions were lovely but did anyone else find their first essay not being hugely analytical? :/ I mean, I picked up on some style points but nowhere near as much as I usually would want for a first question...

I was pleasantly surprised at how much vocab they gave actually.

I really liked them too! I'm the opposite though - I think my Anna essay was a lot better than my Dido essay. I think I sort of missed the point and talked about the reader feeling sympathy for her rather than her being an appealing character. Oops.

I really liked them too! I'm the opposite though - I think my Anna essay was a lot better than my Dido essay. I think I sort of missed the point and talked about the reader feeling sympathy for her rather than her being an appealing character. Oops.

Weren't we supposed to justify how far has Virgil made us have sympathy for Dido? I quoted some bits from the passage they gave us and talked about how she had no control over her fate as she was in the trickery between two gods. Then I went on about how towards the end she seemed a bit pathetic (eg she was captivated by how much Ascanius looked like his father)...

I am almost 100% certain that the question asked how far you agreed with the supposition that Dido was constantly presented in a good light...

Yeah that's what I thought? How much did you end up quoting from the passage? I only did a few words or so :/ literally could not think of anything to say about her and sympathy except for the "saucia" and the "caeco.. igni" part :/ yeah and I talked about how a Roman reader won't sympathise too much because at the end she neglects her duty towards Carthage by killing herself.