Literary Terms
A comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
This goddess shows sympathy for Odysseus and involves herself in his various trials and tribulations
Who is Athena?
This character's mother was killed by a stray bullet while fetching something from her car.
Who is Saaed?
"So foul and fair a day I have not seen."
Who is Macbeth?
The proper way to write the title of a short story.
What is using only quotation marks?
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
What is alliteration?
This god, the father of Polyphemus, hates Odysseus and tries to prevent him from returning home to Ithaca.
Who is Poseidon?
The portals to the Western Hemisphere in Exit West are examples of this literary technique.
What is magical realism?
The raven himself is hoarse // That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan ?? Under my battlements.
Who is Lady Macbeth?
3 quatrains and a rhyming couplet.
What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
Five feet per line, in which the pattern for each foot is stressed, unstressed
What is iambic pentameter?
This nymph, whose island is Odysseus's final stop before home, holds Odysseus prisoner but is ordered by the gods to release him so that he can sail back to Ithaca on a raft.
Who is Calypso?
Okonkwo's toxic and overpowering approach to masculinity is the result of this fear.
What is the fear of being perceived weak like his father?
There's no art // To find the mind's construction in the face.
Who is Duncan?
He capitalizes on the lawlessness that comes from the plague, demonstrating how some people will always seek personal advantage, even in dire situations.
What is Cottard?
The object within a simile that is being compared to something else
What the tenor?
This giant monster and whirlpool combination destroys the remainder of Odysseus's men before his final shipwreck.
What are Scylla and Charybdis?
Okonkwo must go to this place after killing Ezeudu's son during Ezeudu's funeral.
What is his mother's village?
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow // Creeps in this petty pace from day to day // To the last syllable of recorded time.
Who is Macbeth?
Ikemefuna's last words.
What are, "My father, they have killed me!"
When something occurs in a piece of literature that is previously unknown to both the character and the reader.
What is situational irony?
This man of Odysseus's unit approaches him in the land of the dead and asks that his body receive its proper burial before Odysseus and his men return home.
Who is Elpenor?
This is the name of Okonkwo's village.
What is Umuofia?
He wants the natural touch; for the poor wren, // The most diminutive of birds, will fight, // Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.
Who is Lady Macduff?
This suitor is killed by Odysseus when he shoots him in the throat with an arrow.
Who is Antinous?