Poetry
Vocab
Macbeth
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Penelopiad
100
This is a love lyric poem in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn, when he must part from his lover.
What is an Aubade?
100
This word means "something that does not logically follow".
What is non-sequitur?
100
This is the speaker of the following quote: “My hands are of your color; but I shame to wear a heart so white.”
Who is Lady Macbeth?
100
She is an augur and misinterprets a harbinger in the beginning of the novel.
Who is Placida Linero?
100
Odysseus is from the Kingdom of this.
What is Ithaca?
200
This poetic foot has the following syllabic combination: / u u.
What is a dactyl?
200
This word means "a swamp; a difficult and inextricable situation".
What is quagmire?
200
This is a child crowned with a tree in his hand.
What is the third apparition?
200

This is Santiago Nasar’s inherited cattle ranch.

What is the Divine Face?

200
Penelope is analogized to this creature.
What is a duck?
300
This is a kind of poem with thirty-nine lines which is written in iambic pentameter.
What is a sestina?
300
This word means "an environment; setting".
What is milieu?
300
This is the speaker of the following quote: “And you all know security is mortals’ chiefest enemy.”
Who is Hecate?
300
Santiago Nasar exits his house through this immediately before the Vicario twins kill him.
What is the Fatal Door?
300
This is the “Trusted Cackle-Hen”.
Who is Eurycleia?
400
The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.
What is an elision?
400
This word means "destiny; fate; fortune (one’s lot in life)".
What is kismet?
400
The following is Macbeth speaking after learning about this event: “It [life] is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
What is the death of Lady Macbeth?
400
This mulatto woman is from Curacao, and she had been proclaimed the most beautiful woman in the Antilles during her youth.
Who is Alberta Simonds?
400
Odysseus escapes through this in the Underworld to escape the furies/Erinyes.
What is the Waters of Forgetfulness?
500
One line of anapestic heptameter would have this number of syllables.
What is twenty-one?
500
This word means "a word humorously misused".
What is malapropism?
500
This is the speaker of the following quote: “Thriftless Ambition, that wilt ravin up thine own life's means!”
Who is Ross?
500
This character does not use all of the rooster for his/her soup, and is consequently disliked by Angela Vicario.
Who is the Bishop?
500
This treacherous goatherd supplies the suitors with a few spears and swords.
Who is Melanthius?
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