Vocab 1
A traditional story that explains the practices or beliefs of a people, or something in the natural world.
What is myth?
A play or film that tells a humorous story.
What is a comedy?
The art of public speaking and debate.
What is rhetoric?
Part of an army in which the soldiers ride horses.
What is a cavalry?
A story meant to teach a lesson.
What is a fable?
A sacred shrine where a priest or priestess spoke for a god or goddess.
What is oracle?
The outer border of a circle; the measurement of that border.
What is circumference?
Words or actions that are part of a religious ceremony.
What is ritual?
A branch of mathematics centered around measurement and relationships of points, lines, angles, and surfaces of figures on a plane.
What is plane geometry?
A branch of mathematics about measurements and relationship of points, lines, angles, surfaces, and solids in three-dimensional space.
What is solid geometry?
A play or film in which characters fail to overcome serious problems.
What is a tragedy?
The custom of passing along stories by speech.
What is oral tradition?
A story written in the form of a play.
What is a drama?
Words or actions that are part of a religious ceremony.
What is a ritual?
A set of promises about patient care that new doctors make when they start practicing medicine.
What is Hippocratic Oath?
The philosophy of the Stoics who believed that people should not try to feel joy or sadness.
What is Stoicism?
Greek teachers of philosophy, reasoning, and public speaking.
What is Sophists?
Philosophical method of questioning to gain truth.
What is Socratic Method?
The philosophy of Epicurus, stating that the purpose of life is to look for happiness and peace.
What is Epicureanism?
Fort Frye mascot.
What is Cadet?