Sappho
Sophocles
Virgil
Ovid
Literary Potpourri
100
The image “Incense smokes on the altar,” appeals to these two senses.
What are sight and smell?
100
The chorus plays this role in Oedipus the King.
What is the people of Thebes?
100
The character, Ulysses, represents this characteristic of the Greeks in Virgil's work.
What is deceptiveness?
100
Ovid's master work that includes stories of supernatural transformations.
What is Metamorphoses?
100
A work of dramatic literature that shows the downfall of a person, usually of high birth or noble status
What is a tragic drama?
200
The subject matter of “He is More Than a Hero” is this theme.
What is unfulfilled love?
200
Oedipus accomplished this great deed on behalf of the Theban people prior to the events of Oedipus the King.
What is defeating the Sphinx?
200
Virgil was commissioned to write the Aeneid by this person.
Who is Emperor Augustus Caesar?
200
An outcome that is different than what was expected
What is situation irony?
300
The speaker of “He Is More Than a Hero” considers the man a god for this reason.
What is he is the husband of the woman the speaker admires?
300
Oedipus was guilty of this hamartia.
What is hubris?
300
The Aeneid is this literary form.
What is a national epic?
300
The Story of Daedalus and Icarus was written in the this poetic form.
What is a narrative poem?
300
Poetry that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker that is meant to be sung accompanied by a stringed instrument – traditionally a lyre
What is lyric poetry?
400
Sappho was from this Greek island.
What is Lesbos?
400
Sophocles use this image to represent Thebes in the extended metaphor he develops in Oedipus the King.
What is a ship of a storm-tossed sea?
400
Laocoön represents this familiar archetype from Virgil's famous work.
What is the prophet who is unheeded?
400
“He kissed his son (Good-bye, if he had known it), rose on his wings, flew on ahead, as fearful as any bird launching the little nestlings out of high nest into thin air.” demonstrates this type of literary device in Ovid's work.
What is foreshadowing?
400
A lyric song or poem, serious in nature, that was meant to be performed as part of a drama
What is an ode?
500
The following passage demonstrates these three characteristics of lyric poetry from Sappho’s “He Is More Than a Hero “? If I meet/you suddenly, I can’t/speak – my tongue is broken;/a thin flame runs under/ my skin; seeing nothing,/hearing only my own ears/drumming, I drip with sweat;/ trembling shakes my body/and I turn paler than/dry grass.
What is 1. a short poem 2. expresses personal thoughts and feelings often conveying strong emotion 3. Uses simple language
500
Jocasta tells the story of her son to denounce prophets using this type of irony.
What is dramatic irony?
500
Aeneas's parents are Venus, goddess of love, and this king, brother of Priam of Troy.
Who is Anchises?
500
The passage "Icarus stood by and watched, and raised his shiny face/ To let a feather, light as down, fall on it,/ Or stuck his thumb into the yellow wax, / Fooling around, the way a boy will, always,/ Whenever a father tries to get some work done." sets this tone.
What is playfulness?
500
A medieval French poem usually written in octosyllabic verse literature that dealt with subjects thought to be of Celtic origin that shares the characteristics of a short medieval romance.
What is a lay?
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