Parts of a Story & Rhetorical Elements
Difference between static and dynamic characters
No change vs. change during a story
There's a fire in my heart and you fan it, Janet.
Metaphor
3 articles of the English language
the, a, an
Odysseus is an example of this epic convention
Epic hero
Gives Odysseus a magical plant to protect him from Circe's magic
Hermes
Define logos, ethos, & pathos
Persuading using logic, credibility, & emotion
Hello darkness, my old friend/I've come to talk with you again.
Personification
7 coordinating conjunctions
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
Greek hospitality
Xenia
Name of the bard whom Odysseus spares during the suitor slaughter
Phemius
Difference between a story's exposition and initial incident
Background info given at the beginning of a story; initial incident is the first point of plot action.
A pause within a line of poetry
Caesura
What part of speech shows location or time? Ex: up, over, on, through
Preposition
Owl-eyed Athena
Epithet
Alcinous and Arete
A stereotyped character
Stock
"I tear my heart open/I sew myself shut/My weakness is/That I care too much" --> 2 devices other than rhyme
Metaphor & imagery
Its
Biblical/Greek names
Pronouns
Plural nouns that end in s
Odysseus' refusal of the call
Pretends he's crazy to get out of going to Troy
Name of Circe's island
Aeaea
How does an author create tone and mood? Use specific terms (2).
Connotation, & diction
"You can be a King Kong banging on your chest" --> 4 devices
Metaphor, alliteration, allusion, onomatopoeia
Most common type of sentence
Complex
When Odysseus meets up with Eumaus again, which step of his Hero's Journey is it?
The Road Back
Name of the boy who grew up and killed the man who murdered his father and married his mother
Orestes