Vocab
Greek Tragedies
Poetry & Sentence Structure
Figurative Language
Essays
100

The death of a person in a lofty position

What is demise?

100

You will kill your father and marry your mother

What was the prophecy that brought about Oedipus' demise?

100

Although, after, when, while, which, unless, until, because, before, if, even though, since

What are the subordination conjunctions? 

100

X is Y

What is a standard metaphor?

100

The third paragraph in the close reading analysis essay

What is the connections paragraph?

200

A cup of ___ tea will not warm you up on a chilly morning. 

What is tepid?

200

The 2 places that Oedipus lived

What is Corinth and Thebes?

200

Rhythm, rhyme and alliteration  

What is considered the sound of a poem?

200

“When the young Dawn with fingertips of rose lit up the world..”

What is personification? 

200

Answer the prompt with an evidence based argument

What is the goal of the expository essay?

300

Averse

What is "opposed to"? 

300

She fell to the floor on fire, screaming

Who is Glauce?

300

The joining of two complete sentences into one sentence 

What is proper coordination? 

300

"There is the sea and who will drain it dry? Precious as silver, inexhaustible, ever new, it breeds the more we reap it – tides on tides of crimson die..."

What is an extended metaphor?

300

The author, genre, title, answer to the prompt and three examples that will be addressed

What are the components of a thesis paragraph?

400

The synonyms are treachery and deceitfulness 

What is duplicity?

400

"And she, the swan of the gods who lived to sing her latest dying song--"

Who is Cassandra?

400
It develops the story arc and meaning/emotion/history of the poem

What is the purpose of looking at the sections of a poem?

400

“... but, as ivy clings to the twigs of the laurel…”

(Hint: find 2 figurative devices!) 

What is personification and a standard simile?

400

The steps of a figurative analysis paragraph

Topic sentence, comparison, shared quality, author's purpose(x2)

500

The antonym is criticize  

What is extol?

500
"He cuts the extremities, feet and delicate hands into small pieces, scatters them over the dish and serves it to Thyestes throned on high"

Who is Atrues?

500
An example of compound complex sentence structure 

DC, IC; IC 

OR

DC, IC, and IC.

OR

IC; IC →  DC. IC — IC →  DC

OR 

IC — IC → DC

500

The 7 types of figurative language

Standard simile, epic simile, homeric simile, standard metaphor, extended metaphor, implied metaphor and personification

500

Personal stories and the given book in the close reading analysis essay


What are the two thing NOT to make a connection to in the greater relevance paragraph?


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