SAT Vocabulary
Romeo and Juliet
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Poetry
100
A lack; You do not have enough
What is Paucity?
100
The Prince of Cats
Who is Tybalt?
100
The King of the gods
Who is Zeus?
100
Odysseus' wife
Who is Penelope?
100
1 sestet, 1 octet, (Italian)
What is Petrarchan?
200
Giving human qualities to objects, animals, or gods
What is Anthropomorphism?
200
A stretcher for carrying dead people
What is a Bier?
200
The goddess of gentle waves on the beach
Who is Thetis?
200
The son of Odysseus
Who is Telemachus?
200
3 quatrains, 1 couplet (English)
What is Shakespearean?
300
Vocabulary distinctive to a particular group of people
What is Jargon?
300
The punishment for fighting in Verona
What is the death sentence?
300
Found young Paris when he was abandoned
Who is a Shepherd?
300
Disguises Odysseus as an old beggar
Who is Athena?
300
When something equals something else
What is a metaphor?
400
Deliberate destruction of an entire group
What is Genocide?
400
The Capulets and the Montagues
Who are the two main families?
400
The Golden Apple had this written on it
What is "Kallisto"?
400
The god of the Sea
Who is Poseidon?
400
A 5 line stanza
What is a Quintet?
500
To push something that's dangerous to the edge of disaster and will not give up
What is Brinkmanship?
500
Gives Juliet the false poison
Who is Friar Lawrence?
500
Was shot in the heel during the Trojan War
Who is Achilles?
500
Witch/Goddess that turned Odysseus' men into different animals
Who is Circe?
500
An iambic pentameter that doesn't rhyme
What is a blank verse?
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