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Literary Devices
Ch 1-8 Vocabulary
Ch 1-8 Plot Trivia
Themes of TotGH
Miscellaneous
100
Provide an example of foreshadowing found in the Tales of the Greek Heroes.

What is when Cronos chops up his father?

100

The gods and Titans never die or decay so they are...

What is immortal?

100

The item Prometheus generously gave mankind.

What is fire?

100

Compare and Contrast Prometheus and Epimetheus.

What is Prometheus is wise/foresighted and Epimetheus is foolish and improvident?

100

List the 2 ways I always say we should enter the classroom. 

What is calmly and quietly? 

200
Identify the literary device by the definition: using objects, characters, or events to represent deeper meanings or abstract ideas.

What is Symbolism?

200
Name one of Pandora's qualities was to be overly curious and eager for knowledge.

What is inquisitive?

200
List the items in Pandora's box. 

What is Greed, war, pain, disease, jealousy, sorrows, lies, cheating, etc and HOPE?

200

Provide an example of tragic situational irony (plot twists) that are an indicator of Greek texts. 

What is Helle falling off the golden ram, King Lycaon eating his children, Midas turning everything into gold, etc?

200

Name the country I have traveled to (and performed in).

What is Greece?

300
Define 2 out of the 3 types of Irony. 
What is situational irony (the opposite of what readers expect occurs), dramatic irony (the audience knows something the characters do not), and verbal irony (sarcasm/opposite meaning to the words that are spoken)?
300

Zeus felt deep regret, or this vocab word, for having to lie to Alcmena. 

What is remorse?

300
The 5 items Perseus is given to slay the Gorgon Medusa

What is Shoes of Swiftness, a helmet of invisibility, a curved sword, a polished shield, and a magic wallet?

300

Provide an example of foreshadowing from your text. 

 What is Cronos killing his father, Perseus going to Polydectes party, the upcoming war with the giants?

300

Name my favorite Tale of the Greek Hero.

What is Perseus and Medusa?

400
Identify whether the following example uses a simile or a metaphor: The tree was a skyscraper and he was a cat; he climbed the tree in 3 seconds flat! 

What is a metaphor? 

400

Define the role of an oracle.

What is a priest or priestess acting as a medium through whom advice or prophecy was sought from the gods in classical antiquity; an utterance, often ambiguous or obscure, given by a priest or priestess at a shrine as the response of a god to an inquiry?

400

Zeus keeps mentioning a certain upcoming war with these Titans. 

What is the Giants?

400

Provide an example of the Theme of creation and destruction from your text. 

What is Cronos eating his children, Prometheus giving fire/getting punished for it, the flood of mankind, the birth of Pan etc?

400

Name one of my favorite foods/drinks. 

What is coffee, sushi, strawberry ice cream, and pho?

500

Explain the difference between an allegory and an allusion. 

What is an allegory is a story or character that represents broader concepts and moral lessons while an allusion is a reference to something familiar to the reader to enrich the story? 

500

King Lycaon was extremely irreverent and wicked towards Zeus and Hermes. Name another word for being irreverent (disrespectful) and wicked. 

What is impious?

500

Zeus received help from these 3 Immortals so that he could marry Alcmena. 

What is Helios, Selene, Sleep....could also say Hermes?

500

Mention an example of the Theme order coming from chaos in your text. 

What is the creation of the Immortals, the creation of mankind, fire being given to mankind, Pandora's box, etc?

500

Name my favorite literary device.

What is dramatic irony?