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mrs. berner final 1 review, thhs
vocab 1-8, odyssey, romeo and juliet
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English
9th Grade
01/27/2010

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Homer
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ancient Greek poet and bard, author of THE ODYSSEY and THE ILIAD
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the iliad
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the epic story of the trojan war. written by homer
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rhyme scheme
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pattern of rhyme in poetry
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Hera
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Zeus' wife and sister. protector of marriage and married women
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Olympus
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tall mountain in Greece where the gods of mythology were believed to reside
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myths
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stories of anonymous origin beginning among primitive people. attempts of explaining natural phenomena
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epic
Definition
long narrative poem, its hero embodies the ideals of a particular nation or culture,it is serious and written in an elevated style, its subject is a struggle for something that symbolizes a value of the culture, usually appears in the early stages of nationalistic or cultural consciousness, its heroes are aided by divine or supernatural forces
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epithet
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adjective or phrase that describes a characteristic quality of a person or thing.....ex: magic johnson, athena bright eyes, etc
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penelope
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faithful wife of oddyseus
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allusion
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reference to a famous, or well known thing
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bard
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person who recited poetry for entertainment
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alliteration
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when words have similar sounds -> she sells sea shells by the sea shore
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soliloquy
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a one part dialogue performed be a single actor on stage alone
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5 parts of a trajedy
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exposition, complication, climax/crisis/turning point, falling action, resolution
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simile
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comparison of unlike things using 'like' or 'as'
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metaphor
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comparison of two unlike things. saying it as if something IS something else
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sonnet
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14 line poem
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personification
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giving human qualities or characteristics to something not human
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theme
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message or meaning in a work
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monologue
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one person talking or giving a speech
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480-404BC
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the golden or classical age of Greece
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archetype
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the first of its kind
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kleos
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reputation
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900-700 BC
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Homeric age in Greece
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plot
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sequence of events
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foreshadowing
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hints or fore warnings to later events in a work
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imagery
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the pictures in ones mind when reading something descriptive
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Tantalus
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man who stands chin deep in a lake in hades but is unable to drink
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Tiresias
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blind prophet
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Telemachos
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son of Odysseus
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Ulysses
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odysseus
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3 types of Shakespeare's plays
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comedies, tragedies, and histories
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Shakespeare's dates of birth and death
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1564-1616
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foils
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pairs of opposites
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sirens
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seductive temptresses who offer Odysseus ultimate knowledge
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Hades
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Greek god of the underworld (Pluto)
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Renaissance
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rebirth
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Zeus
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chief god
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Vulcan
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ugly god married to aphrodite
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Athena
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goddess of war and wisdom
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denotation
Definition
dictionary/literal definition of words
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connotation
Definition
the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning: A possible connotation of “home” is “a place of warmth, comfort, and affection.”
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Globe
Definition
theater where Shakespeare's plays were performed
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dramatic irony
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when the audience knows something the character doesn't
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Poseidon
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earthshaker and god of the sea
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vignette
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short episode snapshots in a montage
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montage
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a collection vignettes by an author to tell a story
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Helen
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most beautiful woman in the land
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oxymoron
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contradicting words when combined take on a new meaning.....ex: jumbo shrimp, loving hate, mud baths
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Paris
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man who Juliet's parents want her to marry.
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Menelaus
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a king of Sparta, the husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon, to whom he appealed for an army against Troy in order to recover Helen from her abductor, Paris.
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pun
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play on word. can be taken more than one way
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Agamemnon
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He led the Greeks in the Trojan War and was murdered by Clytemnestra, his wife, upon his return from Troy.
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cosmic dance
Definition
the way thing are widely expected to be....white, day, sun= good
black, night, moon= bad
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literal language
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language meant to be interpreted litterally
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groundlings
Definition
poor people in Elizabethan times. so poor they had to sit in the way front of the theater on the ground
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Hermes
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the ancient Greek herald and messenger of the gods and the god of roads, commerce, invention, cunning, and theft.
had famous winged sandals
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Circe
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temptress #3 in the Odyssey who tells odysseus to go to hades and talk to the blind prophet
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phobia
Definition
fear
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phil/philo
Definition
loving or fond of
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mis
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hate or hatred
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dys
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bad, ill, or difficult
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eu
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good, advantageous
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micro
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small or minute
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macro
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large
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a/an
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not or without
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mon/mono
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one, single, alone
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poly
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many
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logy
Definition
science, study, account of
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ethnology
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study of ethnicity
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necrology
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study of death and burial
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cardiology
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study of the heart
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bio
Definition
life
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amphibious
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able to live in land and water
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symbiosis
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two organisms live in a mutual friendship
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tomy/tom
Definition
cutting, operation, incision
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lobotamy
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removal of part of the brain in order to control behavior
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pod
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foot
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tripod
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3 footed
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unipod
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1 footed
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homo
Definition
one in the same, like
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homophonic
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having the same sound
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hetero
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different
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heterochromatic
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having different colors
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hyper
Definition
over, above, beyond ordinary
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hypertrophy
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getting exceedingly stronger from being frequently used
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hypo
Definition
under, beneath, less than ordinary
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hypodermic
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injected under the skin
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hypothesis
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theory or supposition supporting an event
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endo
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within
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endoskeleton
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skeleton inside the body
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endogamy
Definition
marriage within a tribal or social group
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exo
Definition
outside
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exoskeleton
Definition
skeletal structure outside of the body. like armor.
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endogamy
Definition
marriage outside of a tribal or social group
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exogenous
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due to external causes
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archy
Definition
government
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