Literature Terms
What is a plot?
What happens in the novel
What is The Raven a symbol of?
Grief
Who is the King of the Gods?
How many labors did Heracles have to do?
12
Why did Heracles have to do labors?
Hera drove him crazy and made him kill his family.
Who is Heracles' father?
Zeus
What is the word for 'what the author wants you to learn from the story'
Theme
What is one theme of The Tell-Tale Heart?
Guilt will never leave you/ Sometimes you don't know if you're sane or not.
Name one of the gods of war
Ares
Athena
The Nemean _____ was the first labor Heracles had to do. It's fur was impossible to break so he had to get creative.
Lion
DOUBLE POINTS
What animal did King Diomedes teach to eat people?
Horses
Why do people create mythology?
To explain the unexplainable, To find comfort in the unknown, to teach/tell stories
What are the Protagonist and Antagonist?
The main character and the force working against the main character
What is the plot of Cask of Amontillado?
A man named Montresor wants to kill his friend Fortunato, so he says he has fancy wine and brings Fortunato to the basement and burries him in the wall to kill him.
Who is the god of the dead?
Hades
Who is Hippolyte?
Queen of the Amazons
What creature grew a new head each time one was cut off? Heracles had to use fire to burn the necks before he could kill it.
The Hyrdra
What is Athena the goddess of?
Wisdom/ War
What are the three types of Point of View? What do they mean?
First person- I, Me, Us pronouns
Second Person- You pronouns
Thrid Person- He, She, They pronouns
What is The Bust of Athena a symbol of in The Raven?
Wisdom
Who is the god of the sea?
Posideon
The Bull of Crete was sent by what god?
Posiedon
What god is the Ceryneian Hind special to?
Artemis
What happened to Heracles after he died?
He became a god
What are the three types of Irony? Define them.
Sitituational Irony - When something you don't expect to happen, happens
Dramatic Irony- When the reader knows something that the characters don't
Verbal irony- Saying something and meaning the oppostite.
DOUBLE POINTS
What Edgar Allan Poe story is about lost love?
The Raven
Music, The Sun, Medicine, Art, Archery
What three headed dog did Heracles have to capture?
Cerberus- Hades' dog
Chiron, the teacher of Heroes, was what kind of creature? (Half horse, half human)
Centar
What two labors of Heracles didn't count?
Cleaning the stables
The Hydra
What are the five types of unreliable narrator? Define them.
Naive- Young or innocent
Outsider- Not from the culture
Picaro- Making things dramatic
Insane- Their brain is broken
Liar- Just lying
What are the six elements of gothic literature?
Mystery and Fear
Nightmares and Omens
The Past
Supernatural
Villains and Anti-Heroes
Romance
Name all 12 Olympians
Zeus, Posideon, Hera, Demeter, (Hestia/Dionysis), Aphroditite, Artemis, Apollo, Hephestsus, Hermes, Athena, Ares
The Bull of Crete, who Heracles had to stop, had a son. What kind of creature was the son
(Bonus points if you can tell me the son's name)
Minotaur (Astarious)
What were the Hesperides protecting?
The Golden Apples
Who is Sascha's favorite Greek God?
Persephone