Romanticism
Homer
Gods
Vocabulary
Frankenstein
100

Romanticism is focused on this quality.

What are feelings?

100
According to legend, Homer suffered from this physical disability.

What is blindness?

100

This is the "father of gods and men," according to Homer. He is related to lightning and the sky.

Who is Zeus?

100

This poetry concerns an heroic character with national or cosmic significance.

What is an epic?

100

This man was Mary Shelley's husband. He was a great Romantic poet.

Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley?

200

Romanticism was inspired in reaction to this cultural and literary movement.

What was the Enlightenment?

200

According to tradition, Homer's poems led to the creation of this writing system.

What is Attic Greek?

200

This is the wife of Zeus, and is related to motherhood and the life of the home. She is usually called "cow-eyed" or "ox-eyed."

Who is Hera?

200

This virtue means the respect of sacred things.

What is piety?

200

This city was Dr. Frankenstein's hometown. It was also the hometown of Rousseau and John Calvin.

What is Geneva, Switzerland?

300

The Enlightenment was an attempt to unify a religiously fragmented and increasing violent Europe in a period following this watershed movement in history.

What is the Reformation?

300

This first word of Homer's Iliad is a key to the theme of the entire poem.

What is rage?

300

This god was said to have wandered out of Asia Minor and into the Greek world, and this may be a mythological story of the geographical origins of wine, which was his sacred substance. Name this god of theater and "transformations."

Who is Dionysius?

300

This means the action necessary to undo wickedness.

What is penance?

300

A few years ago the Federal Government announced it would fund projects to grow human embryos with genetic material spliced with genes from this animal.

What is a pig?

400

This Reformation teaching of Martin Luther was a claim that everyone needed only to study the Bible by itself in order to find religious truth and church unity.

What is sola scriptura?

400

This German merchant was convinced that Homer's poems were historical, and so set out and discovered, with his own private fortune, both Troy and Mycenae.

Who was Heinrich Schleimann?

400

This god of fire and metalwork lent his Roman name to volcanos. He was begotten of Hera without the cooperation of Zeus.

Who is Hephestus?

400

This means the inordinate desire for earthly or material goods.

What is avarice?

400

This organization was recently forced to reveal in a lawsuit that it routinely sells pieces of aborted children to the medical industry.

What is Planned Parenthood?
500

French Romanticism united with the French Enlightenment in this climactic political event of the 18th century.

What is the French Revolution?

500
These are the names of the king, queen, and crown prince of Troy.

Who are Priam, Hecuba, and Hector?

500

This goddess usually did not have images to represent her. She was related to the sacred purity of the home and was represented by an eternal flame tended by sacred virgins.

Who is Vesta or Hestia?

500

This kind of story is made with characters, events, and objects to represent ideas, morals or religious concepts .

What is an allegory?

500

The Monster claimed to have studied these two books.

What is Paradise Lost, The Sorrows of Werther, and Plutarch's Lives?

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