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English
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01/24/2010

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Homer
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Wrote the Odysey and the Illiad
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Illiad
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written by homer about the trojan war
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Trojan War
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caused by Paris stealing helen leads up to odyssey
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Rhyme Scheme
Definition
pattern of rhyme
abab
cdcd
efef
gg
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Hera
Definition
jealous protector of marrige, cow or peacock
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olympus
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the mountain where the greek gods have their home
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myths
Definition
stories of anonymous origin amoung primitive people and beleived by themwhich represents their atempts to explain things that happen in nature
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epic
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a long oral poem, a genre about a hero who embodys a culture, battles something for their culture, using formal language
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characteristics of an epic
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it is a long narrative poem its hero embodys the ideals of a particular nation or culture is serious and written in an elevated style its subject is a struggle for something that symbolises a value of the culture it usually appears in the early stages of nationalistic or cultural consiousness its heros ae aided by divine or supernatural forces in adition the classical epics usually employ the following conventiouns: invication to the muse catalogs discriptions of weapons or armor adressed to the host desent into the underworld cerimonial style
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epithet
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adjective or phrase that describes a characterstic quality of a person or thing
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classic
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something that applies for things still to come
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genre
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the type or classification of a book: scifi fiction ect.
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Penelope
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faithful wife of odysseus
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allusion
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reference to something well known: for example from other litterature
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bard
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recite epics by heart for large audiences
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alliteration
Definition
repitition of similar sounds
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soliliquy
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long speech spoken by one character in a play by themselves
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aside
Definition
undertoan words to another character
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5 parts of a tragedy
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exposition
complication rising action
crisis turning point
falling action
resolution
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simile
Definition
compairison using like or as
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metaphor
Definition
comparing using is
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sonnet
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14 line poem has 3 quatrians and 1 rhymed couplet and the ones used in romeo and juliet ar elizibethan
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personification
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giving human qualitys to something not human
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theme
Definition
the message portrayed by an author
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denotation
Definition
dictionary definiation, literal meaning of a word
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connatation
Definition
thoughts or feelings that a word arouses
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The Globe
Definition
theater in which Romeo and Juliet was staged
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dramatic irony
Definition
when we as a reader know something that one or more of the characters do not
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point of view
Definition
the persective of a person who is telling the story
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Posiedon
Definition
neptune, god of sea
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vignette
Definition
short story that seems unconnected to the others
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helen
Definition
face that launched a thousand ships and started the trojan war
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oxymoron
Definition
ex: jumbo shrimp, instant classic,
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Paris
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stole Helen away or Juliets suitor
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quatrain
Definition
verse thats sequence is abab
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Menelaous
Definition
kind of Phycians, Agamemnon brother
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pun
Definition
play on words
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Agamemnon
Definition
warrior whose wife is a slut and was then murdered by his wifes bf
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Cosmic Dance
Definition
elizabethans loved this, day=good, night=bad
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groundlings
Definition
peasants who stand in front of stage, poor/servants
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1595
Definition
year RJ was supposedly written
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Hermes
Definition
mercury, messenger god, god of herpes
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rhymed couplet
Definition
verse thats gg
two lines that rhym with themselves
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circe
Definition
witch from odyssey, turned odysseus's men into pigs
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monologue
Definition
this is my snl monologue. one person speech
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480-404 bc
Definition
golden/classical age , arostotle, play doh socrates
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archetype
Definition
original model or pattern in which all things of the samee type are copies
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in medias res
Definition
in the middle , the odyssey begins in the middle
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kleos
Definition
reputation
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900-700 bc
Definition
homeric age
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sisyphus
Definition
whenever he pushes the rock up the mountain it rolls back BOULDER MAN
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plot
Definition
plots repeat in odyssey
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setting
Definition
where the story takes place
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foreshadowing
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hinting to what is yet to come
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imagery
Definition
showing not telling
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tantalus
Definition
cant eat or drink hes in a lake and whenever he tries to consume anything it goes away
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tiresias
Definition
blind prophet in the underworld
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telemachos
Definition
odysseus' son who tries to find him
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ulysses
Definition
odysseus name
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prologue
Definition
a fore story
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3 types of shakespeare plays
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comedy history tradgedy
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shakespeares birth and death dates
Definition
birth: april 25 1564
death: april 25 1616
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foil
Definition
characters that are opposite
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artemis
Definition
moon and chase
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sirens
Definition
singing women who entice travelers to their doom
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hades
Definition
god of the underworld and wealth and the name of the underworl
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oral tradition
Definition
tradition passed down orally
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figurative language
Definition
speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning
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renaissance
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the reawakening of golden age theater was very popular social classes huge changes in church
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symbol
Definition
representation
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montage
Definition
juxtaposition or partial superimposition of several shots to form a single image
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zeus
Definition
jupiter,chief god king of gods
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vulcan
Definition
ugly but god of handicrafts , fire
hephaestus
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athena
Definition
minerva , god of wisdom and war
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diction
Definition
style of speaking or writing
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