// ************************************************************************************ // ** This file has been created with the Rotating Content Tool by Randy Hoyt. ** // ** For more information, visit us on the web: ** // ** ** // ** Rotating Content Tool -- http://www.rotatecontent.com/ ** // ** Author: Randy Hoyt -- http://www.randyhoyt.com/ ** // ************************************************************************************ today = new Date() month = today.getMonth() + 1 year = today.getFullYear() selectedDate = new Date("01/01/1900") selectedContent = "" varLength = 31 var entryDate = new Array(varLength) var entryContent = new Array(varLength) entryDate[0] = " " + month + "/01/" + year entryContent[0] = " alliteration—repetition of initial sound:
spumas salis aere ruebant (Aeneid 1.35)" entryDate[1] = " " + month + "/02/" + year entryContent[1] = " anaphora—repetition of inital word/s in successive clauses:
hic illius arma, hic currus fuit (Aeneid 1.16b-17a)" entryDate[2] = " " + month + "/03/" + year entryContent[2] = " aposiopesis—when the speaker breaks off in mid-sentence, unable to finish the thought:
quos ego—sed motos praestat componere fluctus. (Aeneid 1.135)" entryDate[3] = " " + month + "/04/" + year entryContent[3] = " apostrophe—an address to someone or something not physically present, often combined with personification:
o Danaum fortissime gentis Tydide! (Aeneid 1.96b-97a)" entryDate[4] = " " + month + "/05/" + year entryContent[4] = " asyndeton—lack of conjunctions, has the effect of speeding the narrative:
ilicet ignis edax summa ad fastigia vento volvitur; exsuperant flammae, furit aestus ad auras. (Aeneid 2.758-69)" entryDate[5] = " " + month + "/06/" + year entryContent[5] = " chiasmus—ABBA word order, perhaps to suggest a contrast between the elements or create some broader picture:
summa placidum caput . . . unda (Aeneid 1.127)" entryDate[6] = " " + month + "/07/" + year entryContent[6] = " ecphrasis—an abrupt change of scene that eventually rejoins the narrative:
cavernas ingentis . . . milite complent.
 huc se provecti deserto in litore condunt. (Aeneid 2.20, 21, 24; ecphrasis 21-23)" entryDate[7] = " " + month + "/08/" + year entryContent[7] = " ellipsis—omission of a word or words strictly necessary to the grammar of a phrase, but easily understood from the context.  TIP: if you encounter a clause with a perfect or future participle and another complete clause, the participle is really an elliptical verb with a form of sum missing:
 " entryDate[8] = " " + month + "/09/" + year entryContent[8] = " hendiadys—use of two nouns joined by a conjunction or a genitive relationship instead of the expected noun-adjective combination, thereby making the ideas equal:
da nunc, Thybri pater, ferro . . . fortunam atque viam (Aeneid 10.420)" entryDate[9] = " " + month + "/10/" + year entryContent[9] = " hyperbaton—violent distortion of word order (even by Latin standards):
at socii multo gemitu lacrimisque impositum scuto referunt Pallanta frequentes (Aeneid 10.505-06)" entryDate[10] = " " + month + "/11/" + year entryContent[10] = " hyperbole—exaggeration for dramatic effect:
clamores simul horrendos ad sidera tollit (Aeneid 2.222)" entryDate[11] = " " + month + "/12/" + year entryContent[11] = " hysteron proteron—reversal of the logical temporal order:
ipse urbem repeto et cingor fulgentibus armis (Aeneid 2.749)" entryDate[12] = " " + month + "/13/" + year entryContent[12] = " irony—a discrepancy between the apparent meaning of words and their true meaning (sometimes the speaker is unaware of this discrepancy, in which case we use the term dramatic irony):
dis equidem auspicibus reor et Iunone secunda hunc cursum Iliacas vento tenuisse carinas. (Aeneid 4.45-46)" entryDate[13] = " " + month + "/14/" + year entryContent[13] = " litotes—use of a negative to express its opposite for dramatic effect (in Latin, a double negative generally  = a positive):
frons laeta parum (Aeneid 6.862)" entryDate[14] = " " + month + "/15/" + year entryContent[14] = " metaphor—an implied comparison that often contains a form of be: \"A is B.\"  metaphors tend to focus on items that are essentially unlike but display at least one point of similarity:
volat ille per aera magnum remigio alarum (Aeneid 1.300b-01a) " entryDate[15] = " " + month + "/16/" + year entryContent[15] = " metonymy—use of one noun to replace another closely associated with it:
tu mihi . . . sceptra . . . concilias (Aeneid 1.79b-80a)" entryDate[16] = " " + month + "/17/" + year entryContent[16] = " onomatopoeia—words that sound like what they describe, either at the level of the individual word or of the phrase:
 " entryDate[17] = " " + month + "/18/" + year entryContent[17] = " oxymoron—use of contradictory words in juxtaposition:
dux femina facti (Aeneid 1.364)" entryDate[18] = " " + month + "/19/" + year entryContent[18] = " personification—attribution of human qualities to anything not human, often combined with apostrophe:
fessas . . . navis (Aeneid 1.168)" entryDate[19] = " " + month + "/20/" + year entryContent[19] = " pleonasm—use of more words than necessary to complete the meaning:
finem dedit ore loquendi (Aeneid 6.76)" entryDate[20] = " " + month + "/21/" + year entryContent[20] = " polyptoton—use of two forms of the same root word in a phrase:
vicisti et victum tendere palmas Ausonii videre (Aeneid 1.936-37a)" entryDate[21] = " " + month + "/22/" + year entryContent[21] = " polysyndeton—more conjunctions than are strictly  necessary for the meaning:
una Eurusque Notusque ruunt creberque procellis Africus (Aeneid 1.85-86a)" entryDate[22] = " " + month + "/23/" + year entryContent[22] = " praeteritio—pretending to avoid mentioning something while discussing it:
quid Thesea magnum, quid memorem Alciden? (Aeneid 6.122b-23a)" entryDate[23] = " " + month + "/24/" + year entryContent[23] = " prolepsis—assigning a future characteristic to something before it is logically appropriate, often by means of an adjective:
cui me moribundam deseris? (Aeneid 4.323)" entryDate[24] = " " + month + "/25/" + year entryContent[24] = " simile—a comparison using like or as: \"A is like B.\"  similes explain the unfamiliar in terms of the familiar.  extended  (Homeric or ring-form ) similes describing the natural or everyday world are common in Vergil:
clamores . . . quales mugitus, fugit cum saucius aram taurus (Aeneid 2.233-34a)" entryDate[25] = " " + month + "/26/" + year entryContent[25] = " synchesis (interlocking word order)—ABAB word order, often suggesting a relationship between the elements:
clipei extremos septemplicis orbis (Aeneid 12.925)" entryDate[26] = " " + month + "/27/" + year entryContent[26] = " synecdoche—a type of metonymy involving the use of  part for the whole (pars pro toto) or whole for the part: " entryDate[27] = " " + month + "/28/" + year entryContent[27] = " tmesis—splitting a word into its separate roots and separating them:
hac Troiana tenus fuerit fortuna secuta (Aeneid 6.62)" entryDate[28] = " " + month + "/29/" + year entryContent[28] = " transferred epithet—moving an adjective from the noun it most logically modifies to another noun somehow related to the same idea:
virum . . . fortia corpora (Aeneid 1.101)" entryDate[29] = " " + month + "/30/" + year entryContent[29] = " tricolon crescens—a series of three elements that grow in scope:
sit Latium, sit Albani per saecula reges, sit Romana potens Itala virtute propago (Aeneid 1.826-27)" entryDate[30] = " " + month + "/31/" + year entryContent[30] = " zeugma—use of a word (usually a verb) with two others, to one of which it applies concretely, to the other more abstractly:
ille . . . oculos dextramque [manum] . . . protendens (Aeneid 12.930)" if (typeof display == "undefined") { var display = "date" } if (display == "random") { var randomNumber = Math.random() randomNumber *= varLength randomNumber = parseInt(randomNumber) if(isNaN(randomNumber)) randomNumber = 0 else randomNumber %= varLength selectedContent = entryContent[randomNumber] } else { for (x=0; x<(entryContent.length); x++) { tempDate = new Date(entryDate[x]) tempContent = entryContent[x] if ((tempDate <= today) && (tempDate > selectedDate)) { selectedContent = tempContent selectDate = tempDate } } } document.write (selectedContent)