Characters from And Then There Were None
Characters in The Odyssey
Romeo & Juliet Vocabulary List 5
Romeo & Juliet Literary Terms
Examples of Literary Terms in Use
100
She worked at a school for girls and came to the island to be Mrs. Owen's secretary.
Who is Vera Claythorne?
100
He is the king of the gods.
Who is Zeus?
100
This means to appeal or entreat earnestly.
What is plead?
100
This is a joke that comes from a play on words. It can make use of a word’s multiple meanings or of homophones.
What is a pun?
100
"Where had he seen that tortoise-like neck [...]?" (Christie 36).
What is a simile?
200
He was Mr. Owen.
Who is Wargrave?
200
He is the only survivor to make it home to Ithaca.
Who is Odysseus?
200
This means to contrive, plan or elaborate; invent from existing principles or ideas.
What is devise?
200
This is when the reader knows something that a character does not know.
What is dramatic irony?
200
"Why did I never see his face properly before? A wolf -- that's what it is -- a wolf's face" (Christie 262).
What is a metaphor?
300
This character was the last person alive on Soldier Island.
Who is Wargrave?
300
She challenges the suitor to an archery contest.
Who is Penelope?
300
This means to go around or bypass.
What is circumvent?
300
This is a writer’s use of hints and clues to suggest events that will occur later in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
300
What is a foil?
400
He lied and said his name was Davis.
Who is Blore?
400
He helped his father, Odysseus, defeat the suitors.
Who is Telemachus?
400
This means to agree together or to plot to work together, especially secretly, to do something wrong or evil.
What is conspire?
400
This is when two storylines of equal importance are told simultaneously.
What are parallel plots?
400
"But as I sent them on toward Scylla, I / told them nothing, as they could do nothing" (Homer 1. 12.161-162).
What is dramatic irony?
500
This boy drown because Vera let him swim out to the rock.
Who is Cyril?
500
He fell off a roof and died.
Who is Elpenor?
500
This mean to determine or make a decision between two opposing sides.
What is arbitrate?
500
Shorter than a soliloquy, this short speech is directed at the audience, or another character, and is not heard by the other characters on stage.
What is an aside?
500
"Telemachus, true son of King Odysseus, / belted his sword on [...]" (2.21.137-138).
What is an epithet?