Count of Monte Cristo
Oedipus
Odyssey
Literary Terms
Mythology
100
Patience and hope
What are Edmond Dantes's last words to Maximillien Morrel?
100
--> Crops stop growing --> Cattles and people are dying --> droughts --> Babies are being born dead
What are the immediate effects of the plague?
100
This God/Goddess is Odyesseus's protector.
Who is Athena?
100
A phrase that uses the words like or as to describe someone or something by comparing it with someone or something else that is similar
What is a simile?
100
This god has control over everything and his symbol is the lightning bolt
Who is Zeus?
200
Count of Monte Criston, Matlan Sailor, Lord Whitmore(Thomas and French Clerk), Sinbad the Sailor,
Who is Edmond Dantes?
200
Sophocles
Who is the author of Oedipus?
200
Speaker of "Give me another, thank you kindly. Tell me, how are you called?"
What is the Cyclops?
200
A literary term that identifies one thing as being the same as some unrelated other thing (does not use like or as)
What is a metaphor?
200
Goddess of sexuality, love, fertility, and seduction. She is a daughter of Zeus.
Who is Aphrodite?
300
Darkness and Light
What are the main two symbols from TCMOC?
300
Swollenfoot
What is Oedipus's real name?
300
Speaker of "Great captain, a fair wing and the honey lights of home are all you seek"
Who is Teiresias?
300
The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character
What is characterization?
300
The god of combat and war
Who is Ares?
400
Feb. 24, 1815: Paris Feb 28, 1829: Rome, Paris October 4, 1836: House on the Water
What is the setting?
400
Kreon already has power, influence, and wealth and he doesn't want the dangers of a king.
What is Kreon's counter argument to being King?
400
This god caused the death of most of Odysseus's men, indirectly (caused them to starve)
Who is Poseidon?
400
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
What is personification?
400
A jar of evil from the stealing of the fire myth.
What is Pandora's box?
500
Time, Distance, Mortality
What are the Count's three advocacies?
500
Oedipus says there is no reason to see for everything dear to me is gone and the new things that I continue to see are just as bad.
Why does Oedipus blind himself?
500
Name their professions: Telemachus, Eumaeus, Argos, Eurycleia, Philoteus, Calypso, Antinous
What is a prince, swineherd, a dog, Odysseus and Penelope's nurse, cowherd, goddess, lead suitor
500
When a narrative starts in the middle
What is media res?
500
These were men were always fighting and their end came by war
Who are the Silver men?
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