Basic Literary Terms
Odyssey (1)
Odyssey (2)
Oedipus
The Count of Monte Cristo
100
Indications or signals of future events.
What is foreshadowing?
100
Lightning bolt and crown.
What are the symbols of Zeus?
100
The war that Odysseus spends 10 years fighting in.
What is the Trojan War?
100
Nothing is growing, hunger, plague, and dead babies.
What is the disaster within Thebes?
100
The people at fault for Dantes' imprisonment.
Who are Fernand, Villefort, Danglars, and Caderrouse?
200
When words are used to portray a sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
Winged sandal and wand.
What are the symbols of Hermes?
200
The place that Odysseus is yearning to go for 20 years when he is at sea.
What is Ithaca?
200
The former king of Thebes.
Who is Laios?
200
The famous Roman bandit who is indebted to Dantes.
Who is Luigi Vampa?
300
Figure of speech that compares two things that are alike in some way using “like” or “as”.
What is simile?
300
The god that helps Odysseus by giving him a bag of wind, but once this fails, he does not want to help him anymore.
Who is Aelous?
300
The place that the Witch Circe sends Odysseus and his men to.
Where is the Land of the Dead?
300
He makes no benefit from having Oedipus off the thrown.
Who is Kreon?
300
Dantes second in his duel against Albert de Morcerf.
Who is Maximilian Morrel?
400
When what was expected does not occur.
What is situational irony?
400
The person that Odysseus and his men go look for in the Underworld.
Who is Teiresias?
400
The practice of hospitality to all travelers that come to your house.
What is Xenia?
400
The prophet of Apollo who warns Oedipus of the truth.
Who is Teiresias?
400
The husband of Julie, who is the daughter of Monsieur Morrel and sister of Maximilian.
Who is Emmanuel Herbaut?
500
The literary narrative technique of relating a story from the midpoint, rather than the beginning.
What is in media res?
500
The first two people that Odysseus reveals himself to in Ithaca.
Who are Eumaeus and Philoetius?
500
The animal that Odysseus sacrifices in order to wake the dead.
What is the black lamb?
500
The children that Oedipus and Jocasta have.
Who are Polynices, Eteocles, Antigone, and Ismene?
500
Albert de Morcef's good friend who is a journalist.
Who is Beauchamp?
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