Odyssey
the act of being hospitable toward your guests inn case they are a God in disguise
What is Xenia?
"O serpent heart hid with a flow'ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical!" (3.2.79-83)
What is an oxymoron?
comparison between two essentially unlike things using words such as "like," as," or "as though"
What is a smilie?
This character was Janie's first husband.
Who is Logan Killicks?
when a character speaks in ignorance of a situation known to the audience or other characters
What is dramatic irony?
Calypso's Island
What is Ogygia?
1.Act 1, Scene 1, Lines 197-198 Romeo: "Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lover's eye."
What is a Metaphor?
application of a name or description to something to which it is not literally applicable
What is a metaphor?
"They oughta be shamed uh theyselves! Teasin' dat poor brute beast lak they is! Done been worked tuh death; done had his disposition ruint wid mistreatment, and now they tuh finish devilin im tuh death."
The mule that comes up in TEWWG represents what?
What is the treatment/discrimination of black women?
a hint of what is to come later in the story.
Divine Calypso told her guest to sit...
What is the poetic device being used?
What is epithet?
When does Romeo say that he "has not seen true beauty till this night".
He says that when he first sees Juliet at the party
A sonnet probably made popular with the following rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg
What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
"Then Joe Starks realized all the meanings and his vanity bled like a flood." (Chapter 7)
What is the figurative language in this?
What is a simile?
an extended metaphor
What is conceit?
Eurycleia recognizes Odysseus with this when he returns as a beggar.
What is the scar on his leg?
What does Mercutio say when he gets stabbed?
"A plague to both your houses!"
the use of words to imitate the sounds they describe. Example: "crack" or "whir"
What is onomatopoeia?
This argument between the men in TEWWG discusses the instincts and intuition of humans.
What is caution vs nature?
exaggeration for emphasis
What is hyperbole?
"After a lion eats a grazing ox, its chest and jowls are thick with blood all over; a dreadful sight." (p. 490)
What is the poetic device being used?
What is an epic simile?
When the nurse informs Juliet that there has been a death and a banishment, what is the Dramatic irony?
Juliet thinks Romeo is dead and Tybalt is banished, but it is actually the other way around
a situation or phrase that appears to be contradictory but which contains a truth worth considering
What is a paradox?
"It was the meanest moment of eternity".
What just happened?
What is the death of Tea Cake?
A shift in a poem's tone
What is volta?